Léonide Massine
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Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin, commonly known as Léonide Massine, was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, Les Présages, and many others in the sa
Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1914
The Red Shoes (1948 film)
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The Red Shoes is a 1948 British dance drama film written, produced and directed by the duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It follows Victoria Page, an aspiring ballerina who joins the world
Léonide Massine
…which was never seen outside the studio. Massine appeared in two feature-length films by the British directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). He also had a cameo appearance in Powell's later film Honeymoon (1959). Massine starred in several films of…
Theatrical release poster
Publicity still showing a moment of the Ballet of the Red Shoes sequence
Moira Shearer, a trained ballerina, was cast in the lead role
Marius Goring was cast as Julian Craster.