The Red Shoes
Andersen's dancing tale
*The Red Shoes* is a 1948 British film about a ballerina torn between her art and her love life, directed by Powell and Pressburger.
The title references Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about enchanted shoes that force their wearer to dance until death.
The phrase evokes obsessive devotion to one's craft: She's got the red shoes on—she'll never stop working.
- balletClassical dance on pointe
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- cursedUnder a malevolent spell
Hans Christian Andersen · crimson · slippers · scarlet · feet · dancing · punishment · desire · vanity · enchanted · film · theatre · possession · blood · death · karma · whirling · exhaustion
The Red ShoesCinderella
Rags-to-riches heroine
The Golden Goose · Puss in Boots · Aladdin · Snow White · Sleeping Beauty
The Red ShoesThe Velveteen Rabbit
The Red ShoesDirty Dancing
Eighties resort romance film
Flashdance · Billy Elliot · Saturday Night Fever · La La Land
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