{"id":42466,"date":"2023-12-25T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1948656"},"modified":"2023-12-25T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T11:05:08","slug":"matthew-bourne-on-how-movies-inspire-his-productions-and-lazy-film-to-stage-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/matthew-bourne-on-how-movies-inspire-his-productions-and-lazy-film-to-stage-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Bourne on how movies inspire his productions and \u201clazy\u201d film-to-stage adaptations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The innovative choreographer discusses why dance shows are for everyone ahead of the broadcast premiere of Sleeping Beauty, which has been given a supernatural twist. <\/p>

By Laura Rutkowski\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 25 December 2023 at 08:00 AM<\/p>

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\u201cChristmas is always busy for me,\u201d British choreographer Matthew Bourne tells me down the phone prior to a performance of Edward Scissorhands. His magical productions are a festive staple, whether they\u2019re on at the theatre \u2013 his company New Adventures is performing their seven-week Christmas season at London\u2019s Sadler\u2019s Wells for the 21st consecutive year with the aforementioned show \u2013 or on television. This Christmas, it\u2019s the broadcast premiere of his 2012 ballet Sleeping Beauty, filmed earlier this year at Sadler\u2019s Wells.<\/p>\n

Bourne usually has what he calls his \u201cbig idea\u201d of how he\u2019s going to change a piece. For instance, 1992\u2019s Nutcracker! begins in an orphanage rather than a grand house and 1995\u2019s Swan Lake is made up of mainly male dancers. For Sleeping Beauty, his third Tchaikovsky ballet, he struggled initially with what to do with it, until he landed on the idea of vampires.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re first introduced to Princess Aurora (Ashley Shaw) as a baby in the late Edwardian era and follow her as she grows up and falls in love with Leo (Andrew Monaghan). When she\u2019s cursed to sleep for 100 years by the wicked fairy Carabosse, Leo becomes immortal as a vampire to make sure he\u2019ll be there when she wakes up in the present day.<\/p>\n