NEWS & MEDIA
Yorkshire Post – 23rd November 2017: From Barnsley to Russia with love
Tala Lee-Turton is on her first tour of the UK after graduating from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
Radio Sheffield – 3rd November 2017: Interview with Cat Cowan on the Breakfast Show
Tala Lee-Turton being interviewed prior to the Chesterfield performance of Swan Lake ...
BBC Look North – November 2017: Barnsley’s very own ballerina
Tala Lee-Turton in a feature by Look North about her life after graduation from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy....
ITV Calendar – November 2017: From Barnsley to the Bolshoi
From Barnsley to the Bolshoi - South Yorkshire's very own ballet star, Tala Lee-Turton, is back in the UK ...
ITV Calendar – November 2017: History-making Barnsley dancer
A Barnsley ballet star - who became only the third ever British female to break through the Bolshoi Ballet Academy - is now touring the UK.
The Wonderful World of Dance – October 2017: Bolshoi Ballet Academy graduate Tala Lee-Turton
21 year old ballet dancer Tala lee-Turton is only the third ever British female to break through the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.
ITV Calendar – July 2016: Barnsley ballerina Tala Lee-Turton returns to her roots
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
BBC News Online – June 2016: Barnsley ballerina third British Bolshoi graduate in 243 years
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.
Sheffield Star – June 2016: South Yorkshire ballerina makes history with Russia graduation
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.
Daily Express – June 2016: Meet the inspirational ballerina who’s danced her way from Barnsley to the Bolshoi
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.