Les chaussons rouges!

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When I was young I loved to watch the movie The Red Shoes in English or Les Chaussons Rouges in French. Either in English or in French I would watch it as many times as they would show it. I loved ballet and as a child I always wanted a pair of red satin ballet shoes. I had many pink pairs, black ones and even a blue pair but never owned a red pair. To compensate I watched Moira Shearer dance in this old 1948 movie.

 The Ballet of the Red Shoes is from a story by Hans Christian Andersen. It is about a young girl who is devoured by an ambition to attend a dance in a pair of red shoes. She get’s the shoes and goes to the ball. For a time all goes well, and she is happy. But at the end of the evening she is tired and wants to go home. But the red shoes are not tired. The red shoes are never tired. They dance her out into the street, they dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day. Time rushes by, love rushes by, life rushes by, but the red shoes dance on....

I thought it would be interesting to include this You Tube song  made by Kate Bush in the 90′s, to accompany her 7th album ‘The Red Shoes’.  The song is hauntingly beautiful. It loosely sticks to the story told in the ballet sequence with the addition of another dancer who passes on the curse (Miranda Richardson). The cinematography was handled by Roger Pratt, who went on to shoot ‘Chocolat’ and the Harry Potter films interestingly enough.

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