The Red Shoes is the seventh studio album by Kate Bush. First released in November 1993, it was accompanied by Bush's short film, The Line, the Cross and the Curve, and was the singer's last release before a 12-year hiatus. Bush's follow-up, Aerial, was released in November 2005. The Red Shoes takes its title from the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; the story of the film, and the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, which in turn inspired it, concerns a dancer possessed by her art, who cannot shake off the eponymous shoes and find peace.[1] The album sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.