Jan McNulty Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 I've just picked up, via Graham Watts twitter feed, that Sir Matthew has made the official announcement this morning that his next production will be The Red Shoes. It will be opening in Plymouth before a gala opening night for the season at Sadler's Wells. I'll put up the link when it appears on the Company website (unless anyone else sees it first). 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Now, there's a surprise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 The press announcement was live streamed and seems, at the moment at least, to be available for replay: https://www.periscope.tv/New_Adventures/1YqKDrddZbvJV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Delighted that it's coming to The Lowry too!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 And it seems that Bourne's Vicky Page will be dancer, Ashley Shaw: http://twitter.com/GWDanceWriter/status/717289325885583361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Hope there'll be a press release out shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 The Dancing Times has been quick off the mark: http://dancing-times.co.uk/news/item/1911-matthew_bourne_red_shoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 Not very detailed, but the official announcement on the website: http://new-adventures.net/the-red-shoes/news/matthew-bourne-announces-new-show Tour dates: http://new-adventures.net/the-red-shoes/tour-dates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 And a BBC News item: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35967037#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabitha Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Sounds great but I'm not sure how it will work as a MB production, given that the film is so much about classical ballet and the main role is about dancing in a pair of red pointe shoes. I could see it more as a musical theatre production with properly trained classical ballet dancers, more along the lines of American in Paris. I'm sure it will be a theatrical extravaganza though and well worth getting tickets for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 I was assuming that it would have to deviate quite significantly from the original - as is usual with his productions. And there's no obligation for him to keep it as ballet, of course. I do however assume that someone else other than Ms Shaw will be dancing the lead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Sounds great but I'm not sure how it will work as a MB production, given that the film is so much about classical ballet and the main role is about dancing in a pair of red pointe shoes.. Perhaps a pair of red Converse 'sneakers' instead... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabitha Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Although the publicity shots I have just seen feature MB and Ashley Shaw with a pair of red pointe shoes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colman Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) It seems pretty clear he thinks it's a ballet: "It has been fascinating to discover how much of this music lends itself to storytelling through dance and this production will, I believe, be the first full length ballet to celebrate his unique music.” Also, from twitter: ashleyshaw_1Ah thank you!! I will have the red shoes on my feet at some point too https://t.co/IMoCvkGOn205/04/2016, 14:57 Edited April 5, 2016 by Colman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabitha Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Doesn't he class all his productions as "ballet" albeit contemporary ballet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colman Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) Well, the ballets. Though he was talking about some of his productions as musicals. Maybe it'll be a classical ballet inside a contemporary ballet? :-) Edited April 5, 2016 by Colman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 Doesn't he class all his productions as "ballet" albeit contemporary ballet? No, categorically not. I have never heard him, in public talks or interviews, describe his productions as ballets. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewinelake Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Has anyone else booked to see this? We've booked for Saturday 17th as a pre-Christmas treat. Went for 8 tickets to get the dscount, so hopefully will be able to find some friends/family to come with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 How important are pointe shoes in the film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 they are 'magic' shoes in the ballet story within the film's story, and once she puts them on, she can't stop dancing (to her doom). As the dancer in question was a ballet dancer, they were pointe shoes. If a more contemporay dancer in the proposed remake (for want of a better word), then they could well be any other type of shoe - though barefoot would ruin the story! :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewinelake Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 My feeling is that the story is very much up his street. Almost too much! I presume there will be some fun technical innovations, so best give them a couple of weeks to iron out the niggles. I was pretty struck by the film and wondered why I'd never heard of it before I saw it on TV (I suppose Kate Bush made a reference, though). It's one of those "theoretically famous" films, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavycapers Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 One of the pairs of red pointe shoes worn by Shearer in the film was in the recent exhibition at the V and A, opened by Tamara Rojo. I wish I'd seen them. I've just finished reading 'Holding on to the Air', by Suzanne Farrell. Either the film was very prescient, or was Balanchine already treating his ballerinas like this when the film was made, in 1948, does anyone know? I guess Vicky Page doesn't need to be on pointe. The publicity shots seem to show Ashley Shaw wafting them about in her hand, so no clue there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) One of the pairs of red pointe shoes worn by Shearer in the film was in the recent exhibition at the V and A, opened by Tamara Rojo. I wish I'd seen them. You have a second chance to see the shoe exhibition at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle - it is a fabulous museum and staged the highly acclaimed (and fantastic)YSL Style is Eternal last year. The V&A show Shoes Pain and Pleasure is being shown at The Bowes 11 June to 9 October 2016. I would urge anyone to visit The Bowes it's lovely and they have a fabulous automaton silver swan which is switched on daily at 2pm - the only other such automaton is the golden peacock at the State Hermitage in St Petersburg! http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/ Have to say it's going to be a great November at The Lowry what with National Ballet China and now MB's Red Shoes - very happy bunny here! Edited April 5, 2016 by Don Q Fan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Ooh, what is National Ballet of China dancing at the Lowry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Ooh, what is National Ballet of China dancing at the Lowry? The Peony Pavilion. I believe they may be doing 1 other UK venue only but no idea which one yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VickyPage Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 It will be interesting to see how Bourne copes with the staging of the ballet in a live production. In the film, a lot of the most poignant moments are filming tricks and things that couldn't easily translate into live performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 What's that about, Don Q Fan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peony_Pavilion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabitha Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 How important are pointe shoes in the film? If you haven't seen the film, you must! It was only on TV just the other day and I ended up watching it again. It's a story within a story about the star of a ballet company who gets the Red Shoes ballet choreographed on her. The ballerina (Vicky Page) is played by Moira Shearer who was a dancer at Sadlers Wells. The owner/director of the company (Boris Lermontov) tells her she has to sacrifice everything for ballet. Robert Helpman was also a main role and choreographer and many dancers in the film came from RB. Of course the film was inspired by the original fairy tale from Hans Christian Andersen. The film was made in 1948 and is still wonderful. I'm sure MB will do it justice, I hope so! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieW Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Weren't there 300 at the auditions at the weekend? Wonder how many new dancers he'll take on this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewinelake Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 One of the interesting (to me) things about the film was the way in which the ballet sequences were shot - rather psychedelic and not at all of a stage performance. It made me wonder how one might reimagine ballet without the constraints of a theatre. Keep the choreography (or the essence of it) yet render the dancers in a more flexible and artistically unbounded setting. Obviously it could be regarded as a travesty, but the creative potential was proved to me by that film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 26, 2016 Author Share Posted July 26, 2016 Full casting has been announced for The Red Shoes: http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/Full-Cast-Announced-for-Matthew-Bournes-THE-RED-SHOES-20160726 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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