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Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian film based on professional dancer Li Cunxin 's 2003 autobiographical memoir of the same name. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao, Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin. The film also stars Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen and Amanda Schull.
Oct 1, 2010 · Mao's Last Dancer: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Christopher Kirby. In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
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- Biography, Drama, Music
- Bruce Beresford
- 2010-10-01
Aug 20, 2010 · The ballet life of Li Cunxin begins when he 11, taken from his peasant family in rural China to train in Beijing, and he defects to the United States as a cultural exchange student as a young man.
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- Bruce Beresford
- PG
- Bruce Greenwood
Apr 12, 2021 · Music moves the Li family. So when the first child for Mao's Last Dancer's Li Cunxin and wife Mary Li was born, they never expected that she wouldn't share their sound-filled world. This is how ...
- 2 min
- Susan Chenery
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas. A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin.
Mao's Last Dancer is a memoir written by Chinese-Australian ballet dancer and author Li Cunxin and first published in 2003. It recounts his journey from a young, impoverished village boy destined to labor in the fields of China to a world-famous professional dancer.
