Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Julian At performance by Lermontov at is to hear ballet score Heart of Fire composed by teacher Covent Garden Opera House, Fact2: Prof Palmer receives invitation also asking Boris Lermontov to attend, Fact3: Vicky dances with Ballet Rambert in matinee performance of Swan Lake at Mercury Theatre in production with company led by Marie Rambert, Fact4: Monte decides to create starring role for her in new ballet, Fact5: Lermontov convinces her to return to company to dance in revival of Red Shoes
Output (English): At a performance by the Ballet Lermontov at Covent Garden Opera House, music student Julian is in attendance to hear the ballet score Heart of Fire, composed by his teacher, Professor Palmer. Separately present is Victoria Vicky Page, a young, unknown dancer from an aristocratic background, with her aunt, Lady Neston. As Heart of Fire progresses, Julian recognises the music as one of his own compositions. During the performance, Prof Palmer receives an invitation to an afterballet party at Lady Nestons residence, also asking Boris Lermontov, the company impresario, to attend. Julian leaves the performance in disillusionment at his professors plagiarism of his music. Lermontov and Vicki meet, and he invites her to a rehearsal of the company. Julian has written to Lermontov to explain the circumstances behind Heart of Fire but then tries to retrieve the letter. Lermontovs assistant Dimitri thwarts all attempts by Julian to gain entry to Lermontovs suite, but finally Lermontov gives Julian an audience. Julian says that he wishes to retrieve his letter before Lermontov has seen it, except that Lermontov has already read the letter. Lermontov asks Julian to play one of his own works at the piano. After hearing Julian play, he hires him as a repetiteur for the company orchestra and assistant to the companys conductor, Livingstone Montague known colloquially to the company as Livy. Lermontov realises that Julian was the true composer of Heart of Fire. Julian and Vicky arrive for work at the Ballet Lermontov on the same day. Later, Vicky dances with Ballet Rambert in a matinee performance of Swan Lake at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, in a production with a company led by Marie Rambert who appears in the film as herself in a wordless cameo. Lermontov realises her potential and invites Vicky to go with Ballet Lermontov to Paris and Monte Carlo. He decides to create a starring role for her in a new ballet, The Red Shoes, for which Julian provides the music. The Red Shoes ballet is a great success, and Lermontov revitalizes the companys repertoire with Vicky in the lead roles, with Julian composing some of the most successful scores. In the meantime, Vicky and Julian have fallen in love but keep their relationship a secret from Lermontov. Lermontov begins to have personal feelings toward Vicky and becomes resentful of the relationship between Vicky and Julian after he learns of their romance. Lermontov fires Julian, and Vicky leaves the company with him. They marry and live in London, where Julian works on composing a new opera. Some time later, Vicky receives a visit from Lermontov, who convinces her to return to the company to dance in a revival of The Red Shoes. On opening night, Julian appears in her dressing room; he has left the premiere of his opera at Covent Garden to take her back with him. Lermontov arrives, and he and Julian contend for Vickys affections. Torn between her love for Julian and her need to dance, she cannot decide what to do. Julian, realising that he has lost her, leaves for the railway station, and Lermontov consoles Vicky, urging her to dance. While being escorted to the stage and wearing the red shoes, Vicky, apparently under the influence of the shoes, runs out of the theatre. Julian, on the platform of the train station, runs towards her. Vicky jumps from a balcony and falls in front of an approaching train. Shaken, Lermontov appears before the audience to announce that Miss Page is unable to dance tonight – nor indeed any other night. As a mark of respect, the company performs The Red Shoes with a spotlight on the empty space where Vicky would have been. While lying close to death on a stretcher, Vicky asks Julian to remove the red shoes, just as in the end of The Red Shoes ballet.