Alan Bates
— Sergei Diaghilev
George De La Pena
— Vaslav Nijinsky
Leslie Browne
— Romola de Pulsky
Carla Fracci
— Tamara Karsavina
Ronald Pickup
— Igor Stravinsky
Ronald Lacey
— Leon Bakst
Jeremy Irons
— Mikhail Fokine
Vernon Dobtcheff
— Sergei Grigoriev
Janet Suzman
— Emilia Marcus
Colin Blakely
— Vassili
Siân Phillips
— Lady Ripon
Frederick Jaeger
— Gabriel Astruc
Alan Badel
— Baron de Gunzburg
Anton Dolin
— Maestro Cecchetti
Stephan Chase
— Adolph Bolm
Hetty Baynes
— Magda
Charles Kay
— Argentine Ambassador
Tomaso Milian Jr.
— Young Boy on Beach
Monica Mason
— Maria Piltz
Valerie Aitken
— Lydia Nelidova
Genesia Rosato
— Ludmilla Schollar
June Brown
— Maria Stepanova
Blaise Miller
— Lisi
Kim Miller
— Marie Rambert
Jamie Rauch
— Page
Mart Crowley
— Baron Adolphe De Meyer
Olga Lowe
— Signora Cecchetti
Marcel Vaccard
— Leon Myassin
Patricia Ruanne
— The doll
Dudley von Loggenburg
— Chief Polotsvian warrior