Dance: Red Shoes

Shoes and pain … oh, how they go hand in glove, so to speak. There's the misery of blisters, bunions and aching feet when every step in the high-heeled trophies conjures up memories of the Little Mermaid's speechless suffering when – all for love of a fella – she swops her tail for legs.Glass slippers – Cinderella. Ruby slippers – Dorothy, bravely striding along that yellow brick road. And the Red Shoes . . . that Hans Christian Andersen tale of demon dancing pumps that Powell and Pressburger would make into a classic film starring ballerina Moira Shearer.You'll doubtless find references to some of these iconic pairs of shoes in the new solo show from Kally Lloyd-Jones of Company Chordelia. For the Glasgow-based dancer/ choreographer and her collaborator, Michael Popper – another dance-maker known for a teasing, satirical sense of humour – aren't confining themselves to a re-telling of the Red Shoes story or film. Instead, they're going for the heart and sole of why shoes often lead us into the paths of passion, sacrifice and encounters with thick-skinned heels of the two-legged kind.