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Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus (Dance, 2025)Shannelle Tali Fergus, Cinderella, 2023

Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus

Shortlisted in 2025 for Dance

Shannelle ‘Tali’ Fergus is a London-based creative working across choreography, performance, teaching and talent management. 

Tali’s movement style is a blend of her training in street styles and contemporary, with leanings towards gesture and pedestrian movement. She is the 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.

Tali also 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.