Despite this tension, Victoria’s career blossoms and she is cast as The Red Shoes lead, the company’s new triumphant ballet ...
Matthew Bourne’s audacious, rule-breaking reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago. It has now become the most successful dance theatre ...
As usual with Bourne, the production will have been adjusted slightly with each iteration, but it’s possible to compare the 30th anniversary version with the 1995 one, of which handily there is a DVD.
Dance-theatre grand vizier Matthew Bourne – mastermind of the fantastic, now returning 2016 melodrama The Red Shoes – once told me that even when he was very young, not only would he put on little ...
Matthew Bourne never made a secret of his love for the cinema – it’s not for nothing he named his first dance company Adventures in Motion Pictures, now New Adventures. His every stage work attests to ...
Spoiler alert: A pumpkin will not become a golden carriage nor will four white mice turn into four white horses in choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne’s dance drama, “Cinderella.” Bourne is best known ...
Even with a slight technical hiccup, the magic of the ballet shone through at the Nottingham Theatre Royal. New Adventures ...
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns with a fresh look for the 21st century. Retaining the iconic elements of the original production loved by millions around the world, Matthew Bourne and award-winning ...