British director and choreographer Matthew Bourne has won an astounding amount of awards for his work, and he was recently knighted for his “service to dance.” Bourne has made a career out of adapting ...
Based on the Powell-Pressburger 1948 movie classic, itself drawn from a macabre Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, the Red ...
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, ...
Last night, we had the pleasure of experiencing Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes at The Lowry, Manchester. A perfect way to ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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, ...