Mao’s Last Dancer
Mao's Last Dancer
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 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.
Cast
Chi Cao
Chengwu Guo
Wen Bin Huang
Joan Chen
Bruce Greenwood
Amanda Schull
Kyle MacLachlan
Jack Thompson
Camilla Vergotis
Madeleine Eastoe
Steven Heathcote
Aden Young
Wang Shuangbao
Barbara Bush
George H. W. Bush
Mao Zedong
Bruce Greenwood
Kip Gamblin
Crew
Bruce Beresford
Kerrie Brown
Herbert Pinter
Christopher Gordon
Cunxin Li
Peter James
Ziggy Golden
Xin Mu
Mark Warner
Anna Borghesi
