Mao's Last Dancer
2009
Rated PG
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“Before you can fly, you have to be free.”
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.
Genres
Drama
Romance
Moods