"The Red Shoes" (1845) is about an orphan girl who ... by Kimberley Rampersad – does excel is in the movement; Cheung's dancing is "hypnotic".

As Karen's confirmation approaches, the widow takes her to the Shoemaker to buy shoes for the service but Karen finds herself drawn to steal a pair of beautiful red dancing shoes, only for tragic ...

She feels a tiny moment of joy dancing in a pair of red shoes but then finds herself trapped by them. The only way to stop them is to have her feet chopped off. While the original is a stark ...

Choreographed by Australian-born Sir Robert Helpmann of the Royal Ballet Company, and partially conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, the story is based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of a young ...