#TBT: "The Red Shoes," Then and Now

#TBT: "The Red Shoes," Then and Now

Black Swan wasn’t the film industry’s first ballet-themed psychological drama. In The Red Shoes (1948), theater and life conflate, with tragic results for the dancer caught in the middle. Unlike Black Swan, however, The Red Shoes starred a real life...
What's Wrong with Bourne's "Swan Lake"?

What's Wrong with Bourne's "Swan Lake"?

You have to wonder how much experience Petipa actually had with swans. They’re elegant and graceful, yes–but they’re also mean, hissy, scary even. The male swans of Matthew Bourne’s wildly popular Swan Lake hit much closer to the mark, in that...