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Tala Lee-Turton being interviewed prior to the Chesterfield performance of Swan Lake ...

Tala Lee-Turton in a feature by Look North about her life after graduation from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy....

From Barnsley to the Bolshoi - South Yorkshire's very own ballet star, Tala Lee-Turton, is back in the UK ...

A Barnsley ballet star - who became only the third ever British female to break through the Bolshoi Ballet Academy - is now touring the UK.

21 year old ballet dancer Tala lee-Turton is only the third ever British female to break through the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

Tala Lee-Turton has given a ballet masterclass to 20 students in her hometown of Barnsley. The ballerina returned to Fearons Middleton School of Dance, in Cudworth, to train the students aged 8-11. Lee-Turton is the third female from Britain to graduate from the Bolshoi ballet academy in Russia

A Barnsley ballerina has become only the third British female to graduate from the elite Bolshoi Ballet Academy during its 243-year history. ​Tala Lee Turton, 20, joined the Moscow-based school when she was 16. ​After four years of intensive training, Tala said the ceremony was one of her proudest moments.

A South Yorkshire ballerina has made history by becoming the third British woman to graduate from a prestigious Russian ballet academy in 243 years. Tala Lee-Turton, aged 20, graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow on June 28 after completing an intensive four-year training programme.

It is a long way from Barnsley to Moscow: 1,961 miles to be precise. But for the past four years the Russian capital has been home to a Yorkshire-born ballet student who has just pulled off a manoeuvre more impressive even than her elegant jetés and fierce fouettes. Not only is Tala Lee-Turton a trailblazer as a rare British trainee at the Bolshoi Academy, she has fi nished top in her class following her intensive training programme and has been awarded a covetable job with the Royal Moscow Ballet.

A Barnsley ballerina has achieved her dream of performing on the world famous Bolshoi Ballet Theatre stage. Tala Lee Turton is only the ninth British dancer to be given a place at the prestigious Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Now three years into her four-year placement, the 19-year-old has earned the privilege of performing at the internationally-famed Bolshoi Theatre.