Sadler's Wells, LondonAshley Shaw makes a triumphant return as doomed ballerina Vicky Page in Bourne's inspired adaptation The Red Shoes was the film that cemented my love for ballet. I saw it on TV one dreary Sunday afternoon, and there on screen were the people I'd been reading about in books: Moira Shearer, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann. Backstage at the imaginary Lermontov Ballet in the postwar period was exa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM on December 23, 2019