Be careful what you wish for. It’s a useful tip at this gifty time of year – and also impels Matthew Bourne’s darkly romantic dance fable. The ballerina heroine achieves her dreams – artistic success, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bourne’s productions are created, staged and revived by his “family” of trusted collaborators and associates.

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes is a swirl of colour and intensity. Adapted from the 1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, this stage version wonderfully conjures its 1940s world of ...

Ten years after its premiere, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes returns, and it’s just as enchanting and captivating as ever. Based on the 1948 film of the same name, which in turn is based on the Hans ...

Bourne’s production, as in the film, follows the rise of a talented young British dancer, Vicky Page, as she joins a foreign ballet troupe (loosely based on the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo which ...