Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Matthew Bourne is conjuring golden-age cinema in “The Red Shoes.” The production, which makes its North American debut at the Ahmanson Theatre on ...

Choreographer Matthew Bourne says 'Red Shoes' is more theater than ballet The British choreographer has made a career out of adapting popular movies, novels and operas into dance productions.

Dance fans revel in the glorious ballet sequences, particularly the 15-minute “Red Shoes” movie-within-the-movie, choreographed by Robert Helpmann (though Jack Cardiff’s cinematography and ...

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.

In 'The Red Shoes,' a ballet about a ballet company, why did director Matthew Bourne settle for a subpar classical performance?

The Red Shoes: Next Step follows Sam (Juliet Doherty), a gifted young dancer whose world spirals after an unexpected, life-changing event. Sam walks away from dancing and ballet, but the art form ...

The beloved 1948 film “The Red Shoes” wasn’t the first or last to portray ballet dancing as a fatal obsession, but it remains the most indelible.

Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Matthew Bourne is conjuring golden-age cinema in “The Red Shoes.” The production, which makes its North American debut at the Ahmanson Theatre on ...