Directed by Ross MacGibbon and Matthew Bourne
Produced by Fiona Morris for Leopard Films
This modern, sexy and risque Christmas ballet film, conceived by Matthew Bourne, combines projections, animation and an intimate shooting style to produce a distinctive new way of presenting dance on screen.
Bourne's Christmas celebrates his power to imaginatively transform ballet, taking dance and dancers off the stage into the studio, bringing together projections, animation and an intimate shooting style to produce a distinctive new way of presenting dance on screen.
Original music by Terry Davies
With extracts from Spitfire, Town & Country, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Play Without Words, Infernal Gallop, Nutcracker!, The Car Man, Dorian Gray and Edward Scissorhands.
First shown on More4, Christmas Day 2011