Mao's Last Dancer: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.

Starring:

Aden Young, Barbara Bush, Bruce Greenwood, Christopher Kirby, Ferdinand Hoang, George Bush, George Ellis, Jack Thompson, Jane Harders, Joan Chen, Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Bell, Mao Zedong, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Nicholas Hammond, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Ping Chen, Ron Lee, Sam Anderson, Ted Maynard, Tony Hall

Genre:

Drama