"Matthew Bourne never made a secret of his love for the cinema it's not for nothing he named his first dance company Adventures in Motion Pictures, now New Adventures. His every stage work attests to that love by including scenes either inspired by famous, easily identifiable cinematic sequences or direct quotations from favourite movies. In The Red Shoes, though, Bourne goes further: he adapts Powell and Pressburger's seminal 1948 film to the stage."
"Inspired by the eponymous Hans Christian Andersen story, The Red Shoes is essentially about the primacy of art in life. It portrays the love affair between a rising star dancer, Vicky Page, and a struggling composer, Julian Craster, and the clash between their love and the higher calling of art, as represented by the powerful single-minded impresario Boris Lermontov. He, too, loves Vicky, but for her art, which should not be distracted by human love."
Matthew Bourne adapts Powell and Pressburger's 1948 film The Red Shoes into a two-act ballet that premiered in 2016, won multiple awards, and tours the UK during the festive season at Sadler's Wells. The story, drawn from Hans Christian Andersen, follows dancer Vicky Page, composer Julian Craster, and impresario Boris Lermontov, and centers on the supremacy of artistic vocation over romantic attachment. Lermontov values Vicky's art above her personal life and expels the married couple from his company. The enchanted red shoes from the ballet force endless dancing and bridge the staged drama with tragic real-life consequences, while the production alternates between company backstage life and the stylish ballet itself.
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