Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus is a London raised, Margate based creative working within the dance community and in the dance industry – with 20+ years’ experience and a unique 360 perspective, working across performance, choreography, teaching and talent management.
Her movement style is a blend of her training in street styles and contemporary, with leanings towards gesture and pedestrian movement.
Choreographer and Movement Director credits include:
Theatre: Cinderella (Northern Stage), mum. edit. more (Rich Mix, Wellcome), Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (West End, UK Tour), Three Billy Goat Gruff (Unicorn Theatre)
Live Performance: Griff, Rita Ora, The X Factor Italia, Years & Years
Performer credits include:
Theatre: ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company’s Into The Hoods (Novello Theatre), Boy Blue’s REDD (Barbican), Ivan Michael Blackstock’s Traplord (180 The Strand), Ukweli Roach’s VICE (Breakin’ Convention UK & US Tour)
Live Performance: FKA twigs, P!nk, Rihanna, Kylie Minogue
Tali served as Agency Manager of ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company from 2011 to 2024, providing performing and creative talent for stage, screen and corporate productions, with work frequently moving beyond representation into casting and production. She continues to do this independently.
Tali is founder, producer and lead facilitator of identity. ideas. industry. (iii), a programme and method designed to encourage dance artists’ curiosity about their creativity and the industry at large, through movement, conversation and literature.
The programme has been supported by breakthrough initiative Artists4Artists (One Dance UK People’s Choice Award nominee), Chisenhale Dance Space, Impact Dance, Redbridge Drama Centre, casting agency Sillis Movement, Siobhan Davies Studios and Studio Wayne McGregor.