Mao’s Last Dancer

Name: Mao’s Last Dancer
Released: 2009-10-01
Rating: 6.6

2009-10-01 117 MINS Drama, Romance

Storyline

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.