Mao’s Last Dancer
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 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.
Cast
Bruce GreenwoodBen Stevenson 
Kyle MacLachlanCharles Foster 
Joan ChenNiang 
Chi CaoLi Cunxin - adult 
Amanda SchullElizabeth Mackey 
Wang ShuangbaoDia 
Aden YoungDilworth 
Jack ThompsonJudge Woodrow Seals 
Penne Hackforth-JonesCynthia Dodds - C
Chengwu GuoLi Cunxin - teenage - W
Wen Bin HuangLi Cunxin - boy - M
Madeleine EastoeLori - C
Camilla VergotisMary McKendry 
Steven HeathcoteBobby Cordner 
Kip GamblinDavid 
Christopher KirbyMason
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