Mao's Last Dancer

Name: Mao's Last Dancer
Director: Bruce Beresford
Released: 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

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.

Runtime: 117

Release date: 2009-10-01

<article> <figure> <img src="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/tPgTNKrWSXajxYqpW8Yn8gBjkt2.jpg" title='Mao's Last Dancer' alt='Mao's Last Dancer'/> </figure> <h1>Mao's Last Dancer</h1> <p>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.</p> <details><summary>Runtime: 117</summary> <summary>Release date: 2009-10-01</summary></details> </article>