Listen to director Matthew Bourne as he explains how he incorporated dance into this stage adaptation of “The Red Shoes.” Based on the iconic film by the same name, Bourne chose to fully immerse the ...

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 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 ...

The two movies have other things in common. The denouement in Powell and Pressburger’s masterful film about art and mortality is the performance of a ballet called “The Red Shoes”, based on Hans ...

Forever raising the bar for dance films while directly influencing innumerable films within the genre, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 landmark The Red Shoes is one of a handful of movies ...

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