Mao's Last Dancer
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
Crew: Bruce Beresford (Director), Kerrie Brown (Set Decoration), Herbert Pinter (Production Design), Christopher Gordon (Music), Cunxin Li (Author)