“There was something in her movement and her face that expressed in an instant everything there is to say about dancing”, prima ballerina assoluta Margot Fonteyn wrote about her unforgettable encounter with Vaslav Nijinsky’s daughter Kyra in 1951. Three decades later, director Robert Dornhelm (The Children of Theatre Street, Anne Frank) was similarly impressed. He decided to make a film about the dancer – e.g. performing in Max Reinhardt’s 1931 production of Offenbach’s Hoffmanns Erzählungen in a choreography by painter, musician and poet Bronislava Nijinska, who was her aunt. In the award-winning portrait She Dances Alone, Kyra Vaslavovna Nijinsky talks about her life, Max von Sydow reads from Nijinsky’s diaries and étoile dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet Patrick Dupond dances.
A film by Robert Dornhelm
Writing: Jon Bradshaw and Paul Davids
With Kyra Nijinsky, Bud Cort, Patrick Dupond, Max von Sydow, Sauncy LeSueur, Rosine Bena, Jeanette Etheridge, Franco DeAlto, Laura Hoover and Walter Kent
Production: Federico De Laurentiis and Earle Mack
Executive production: Marion Hunt
Second Unit Director: Bernt Amadeus Capra
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla and Michael O’Neal
Title song: Bud Cort
Cinematography: Karl Kofler
Additional photography: Ed Lachman
Editing: Tina Frese
Assistant editor: Jim Stewart
Makeup and hair styling: Yvonne Curry
Sound: Nelson Stoll
Sound assistance: Andy Rovins
