Tala Lee-Turton

Operations Assistant

Tala Lee-Turton is a British Chinese dance artist and creative producer, graduating from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy before co-founding Red Robin Productions. Tala creates multidisciplinary work, spanning live performance, visual art, film and creative research, informed by her experience as an intersectional Barnsley artist.

Her work is supported by a number of leading organisations including the Barbican, Arts Council England, Northern Ballet, Sheffield Theatres, Ballet Boyz, Dance East, Invisible Flock, The Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, Screen Yorkshire, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Genesis Foundation and Barnsley Civic.

Tala joined Akram Khan Company in June 2025.

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