Explores the early life and work of Robert Helpmann Protege of Pavlova and Fonteyns first partner he had a dazzling career as an actor choreographer theatre director ...

For the first 60 minutes, this is a commonplace backstage melodrama, in which temperamental ballerinas replace the more conventional showgirls. Then a superb ballet of the Red Shoes, based on a Hans ...

Robert Helpmann explains, and dancers from the Covent Garden and Sadler's Wells troupes demonstrate, basic steps and movements of the dance as a new ballet is rehearsed and performed.