She Dances Alone

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

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