The flower Lisa has tattooed on her hip is a daisy which is usually the flower used in the game "He loves me, he loves me not" or "She loves me, she loves me not." This game is of French origin and is the way Giselle determines if Albrecht really loves her. It begins with the first petal picked representing "he/she loves me" and whatever the last petal picked says is the truth of how the person's love interest really feels about them. The last petal on Giselle's daisy was "he loves me not." Like Giselle, the last petal on Lisa's daisy tattoo is "he loves me not."
After The Turning Point (1977), this is the second and final film that Leslie Browne made with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
After The Turning Point (1977) and Nijinsky (1980), this was the third and final film that Leslie Browne made with the director Herbert Ross.
Ballerina and actress, Julie Kent also appeared in the later dance movie Center Stage (2000). Like this film, Center Stage (2000) is a ballet-themed movie, where the lives of the dancers imitate what is happening on stage, in Dancers (1987)'s case, the ballet "Giselle."