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Dance

The Bourne identity

12 January 2017

3:00 PM

12 January 2017

3:00 PM

From a film about ballet to a ballet about film. In reworking the 1948 Powell and Pressburger classic The Red Shoes for his latest show, Matthew Bourne pays homage to far more than the unforgettable story of a budding ballerina and the bloody toll of her choice between love and career.

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