Mao's Last Dancer (2009)

Director
Bruce Beresford

Main cast
Chi Cao; Chengwu Guo; Wen Bin Huang; Joan Chen; Bruce Greenwood

Genres
Drama, Romance

Description
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.


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Performance of ballet by The Royal Ballet, recorded at Covent Garden, July 1984.

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