Dancing on Glass

 (Spanish: Las niñas de cristal) is a Spanish drama film directed by Jota Linares and written from a screenplay written by Jota Linares and Jorge Naranjo, and starring María Pedraza and Paula Losada. The movie follows Irene, a classical ballet dancer who replaces the prima ballerina at Spain’s Ballet Clásico Nacional after her predecessor’s suicide. The film premiered on Netflix on April 8, 2022.

Summary
"When immense pressure threatens a ballerina in a new lead role, she and another dancer escape into a friendship that isolates them from the real world."

- Official Netflix synopsis

"When pressure threatens a ballerina (María Pedraza) in a new lead role, she and an outcast dancer create their own world, free from others' expectations."

- Official Netflix synopsis

"After the star of the National Classical Ballet tragically commits suicide, Irene is selected to take her place in the company’s biggest ballet production: Giselle. Now the target of all the girls' jealousy and cruelty, Irene finds a friend in Aurora, a solitary dancer controlled by her mother. Isolated and fueled by the pressures of the ballet world, Irene and Aurora’s relationship turns more and more obsessive, until they run away together to find themselves."

- Official Netflix synopsis

Cast and Characters

 * María Pedraza as Irene
 * Paula Losada as Aurora
 * Marta Hazas as Pilar
 * Mona Martínez as Norma
 * Ana Wagener as Rosa
 * Olivia Baglivi as Ruth
 * Juanjo Almeida as Israel
 * Fernando Delgado as Jon
 * Iria del Río
 * Silvia Kal
 * Jota Castellano