She Dances Alone

Overview

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."

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