She Dances Alone

Story

Synopsis

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."

Director

Robert Dornhelm

Writers

Jon Bradshaw, Paul Davids, Robert Dornhelm

Language

English

Country

Austria, United States of America

Release date

31 May 1981

Ensemble

Cast

• Kyra Nijinsky

  Self

• 

  Patrick Dupond

  Ballet dancer

• 

  Max von Sydow

  Nijinsky (voice)

• Sauncy LeSueur

  Little Kyra

• Rosine Bena

  Ballerina

• Jeanette Etheridge

  Girlfriend

• Franco DeAlto

  Patient

• Laura Hoover

  Little Ballerina

• Walter Kent

  Psychiatrist

• 

  Bud Cort

  Director