Dance Australia

“It was very Hollywood!’

THE Australian dance scene has been buzzing with anticipation of a new film, The Red Shoes, the Next Step. An all-Australian production, it involves a big cast of local dancers and students. The film has been in preparation for a number of years: shooting began in 2021 and continued throughout Covid lockdowns in Sydney.

Billed as a family movie, The Red Shoes is about a young dancer named Sam, who has given up dancing as a type of penance, blaming herself for a

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