There were six or seven of them. It was the late 1980s and the dancers traveled around the country in a minibus, ironing their own costumes and sharing beds in cheap hotels. When they reached their ...

Be careful what you wish for. It’s a useful tip at this gifty time of year – and also impels Matthew Bourne’s darkly romantic dance fable. The ballerina heroine achieves her dreams – artistic success, ...

The double Olivier Award-winning smash hit production comes to Milton Keynes Theatre from Tue 10 – Sat 14 Feb as part of a new UK Tour.

"You have suffered a great loss... that's not the only story you have to tell." Screen has unveiled the official trailer for a dance movie titled The Red Shoes: Next Step, arriving in Australian ...

Director-choreographer Matthew Bourne reimagines the classic Powell and Pressburger dance drama 'The Red Shoes' as a sumptuous full-length ballet, set to the music of Bernard Herrmann. By David Rooney ...

The culmination of a long-held ambition, it truly is, in the luvvie phrase, a love letter to a life in the theatre, to dance in particular, and obliquely, to cinema too. A story about devotion to an ...

The best movie I’ve watched all summer long was made in 1948. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes is a hypnotic dead drop into the psyche of an ambitious ballerina who is ultimately ...

It’s also unique in adding more dance than the original contained. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s film follows the rise of a talented young British dancer, Vicky Page, as she joins a foreign ...

Ashley Shaw in her starring role as Victoria Page in Bourne’s The Red Shoes. Johann Perrson / Center Theatre Group Lez Brotherston’s set design is minimalistic, but exquisite in its attention to the ...