Director Robert Altman wanted to direct a dance movie, and chose Chicago’s Joffrey Company to tell the story. “Artists steeped in the work of Vaslav Nijinsky, Antony Tudor and Frederick Ashton meet, or, rather, met Robert Altman, Neve Campbell and Malcolm McDowell during the three-month shoot took place all over Chicago as it focused on a story inside the life and times of the Joffrey.”