Mao’s Last Dancer
Before you can fly, you have to be free.
- Release Date
- 2009-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- N/A
- Links
- IMDb
Overview
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 falls 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.