She Dances Alone

She Dances Alone — Plot

Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nijinsky's elderly real-life daughter Kyra, who is as stocky as her father was sylph-like. Kyra's uncompromising insistence on total control over the project literally shapes (and frequently distorts) the film before our eyes. Adding to the Pirandellian atmosphere of the Australian-produced She Dances Alone is Max Von Sydow, also playing "himself."

• Release date
• May 31, 1981
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Robert Dornhelm

She Dances Alone — Cast

K

Kyra Nijinsky Self Patrick Dupond Ballet dancer Max von Sydow Nijinsky (voice)

S

Sauncy LeSueur Little Kyra

R

Rosine Bena Ballerina

J

Jeanette Etheridge Girlfriend

F

Franco DeAlto Patient

L

Laura Hoover Little Ballerina