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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
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.
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Keywords:amphitheater ballet beijing communist dance dancer debut ends with biographical notes exchange student federal bureau of investigation first kiss government letter writing looking at oneself in a mirror man wearing a tuxedo marriage massage party returning home slow motion texas videotape village watching a movie windchime