She Dances Alone

She Dances Alone

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 19, 1981

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

She Dances Alone

Production Companies

DHD

Director

Robert Dornhelm

Description

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."