IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church
This landmark film, The Red Shoes (1948), starring Moira Shearer, is a wonderfully stylized story based on Hans Christian Anderson’s dark fairy tale of the same name. The film is set in post-WWII London. It is famous for its beautiful surreal ballet scenes as it tells the story of a young promising ballerina who is torn between two creative, possessive men: a struggling composer and an autocratic dance impresario. The film plumbs the dark recesses of the imagination: dangerous, glorious, absurd, and terrifying by turns. Toby Teorey is the current Vice Chair of the Elderwise Council. He is retired from the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, and in retirement pursues his enduring love of world history, music, and culture.
