"No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us, and possibly our audience, for a moment to a world beyond our own."
The Red Shoes (1948) will air on Turner Classic Movies Feb 28th at 11:15 am. Considered a classic, The Red Shoes is about a young ballerina is torn between her art and her romance with a young composer.