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Pointe: Dancing on a Knife's Edge
- Year of completion
- 2025
- Content type
- Documentary
- Format
- Feature
- Genre
- Arts, Biography, Culture, Society
- Duration
- 75 minutes
- Production Status
- Completed
Synopsis
Floeur Alder's parents are celebrated international ballet stars Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder and she grows up with god-mother Dame Margot Fonteyn and 'Uncle' Rudolf Nureyev. Like her parents, she trains in ballet. She is about to realise her goal to dance on the world stage when she is randomly stabbed in the neck by an unknown man on the streets of Perth. Facing years of physical rehabilitation, she turns to her family and dance to recover and, as the only child of celebrity parents, face the ultimate challenge to find her own way of dancing.
Cast and Crew
Director
Dawn JacksonProducer
Dawn JacksonWriter
Dawn JacksonScreen Australia Supported
Development
Screenings
2025 — CinefestOZ