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 Friday, ...
Do artists really talk this way? Does it matter? In “The Red Shoes,” that glorious 1948 ode to art, love and color, a young ballerina seems to whirl off the screen into our hearts. She must dance — ...
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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 ...
Up to that point, the set design by Lez Brotherston emphasizes a wondrous fluidity but also spatial constriction — the world of the stage, dominated by central proscenium arches. Those arches pivot, ...
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 Friday, ...