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Matthew Bourne adapts The Red Shoes: ballet made famous by Dunfermline star

Matthew Bourne adapts The Red Shoes: ballet made famous by Dunfermline star

Legendary ballet choreographer Matthew Bourne has adapted Powell and Pressburger Academy award-winning movie, The Red Shoes.  The film, which starred Dunfermline’s own Moira Shearer, is a tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. It not only inspired generations of dancers but is the film Michael Scorcese says ‘plays in his heart’ and was the motivation for him to become a film

March 25, 2013 No Comments Fife

Hollywood comes to Fife

It is well-known that the famous running-along-the-beach scene in Chariots of Fire was filmed in St Andrews but the University town is not the only part of Fife to have had a starring role. Pittenweem and North Queensferry have both put in appearances and the historic village of Culross often provides a period setting for tv and film – and more suprisingly – for Captain America, the First Avenger. Thanks