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Moira Shearer King
- Moira Shearer King, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006) was a Scottish ballet dancer and actress. She was famous for her performances in Powell and Pressburger 's The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1951) and Michael Powell 's Peeping Tom (1960).
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In the ballet, a dancer acquires a pair of red ballet shoes which enable her to dance with superhuman skill, but at a price: she can never stop dancing until she dies. During rehearsals, Julian and Vicky's ambition and pride lead them to clash at first — to Boris' glee.
She was famous for her performances in Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1951) and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960). She has been portrayed by Shannon Davidson in the short film Òran na h-Eala (2022) which explores her life-changing decision to appear in The Red Shoes .
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A peasant girl named Karen is adopted while still very young, by a rich old lady after her mother's death and, as-such, grows up vain and spoiled. Before her adoption, Karen had a roughly-made pair of red shoes; after, she has her foster mother buy her a pair of red shoes fit for a princess. Karen is so enamoured of her new shoes that she wears the...
Andersen named the story's anti-heroine Karen after his own loathed half-sister, Karen Marie Andersen.The origins of the story is based on an incident Andersen witnessed as a small child. His father, who was a shoemaker, was sent a piece of red silk by a rich lady to make a pair of dancing slippers for her-own daughter. Using some valuable red leat...
The Red Shoes is a 1948 British feature film about ballet. The film tells the story of a young ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called T...The Red Shoes was adapted as a ballet by the choreographer Matthew Bourne, and premiered at Sadler's Wells TheatreLondon in December 2016.British singer-songwriter Kate Bush's seventh album, The Red Shoes, was named after Powell and Pressburger's film and Andersen's fairy tale the film is based on.Find out about the background of the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Our production of The Red Shoes, written by Nancy Harris, is based on the fairy tale of the same name by Danish poet, author and playwright, Hans Christian Andersen.
The Red Shoes: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann. A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- 1948-10-22
Dec 15, 2023 · Victoria Page was danced by Ashley Shaw. With the support of Bourne’s choreography and Lez Brotherston’s designs, Shaw took on the demanding role to bring the blood-red pointes to life for new audiences. Ashley Shaw as Victoria Page in Matthew Bourne’s production of The Red Shoes Photo by Johan Persson.
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page – played by real-life ballerina Moira Shearer – finds herself driven to breaking ...
