Movie

She Dances Alone (1981)

• May 31, 1981
• 1h 27m

• Drama

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."

Director

Robert Dornhelm

Writers

Paul Davids, Jon Bradshaw

Starring

Kyra Nijinsky, Patrick Dupond, Max von Sydow