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A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Maos 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.
In a village of China (named Quing-Dao in the book), the eleven year-old Li Cunxin is selected by the Communist Party to study ballet at the Madame Maos Dance Academy in Beijing. Years later, he travels to Houston in a cultural exchange program invited by the artistic director Ben Stevenson and he is promoted to principal dancer of the Houston Ballet. Meanwhile he secretly dates and falls in love with the dancer Elizabeth Mackey. When the Chinas government asks Li Cunxin to return to his country, he marries Liz and defects to USA. He is forbidden to return to China and has no news of his parents and family. Meanwhile, his marriage with Liz ends and he misses his parents. But five years later, he has a great surprise during a performance.
Chi Cao
Li - as an adult
Bruce Greenwood
Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan
Charles Foster
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Cynthia Dodds
Christopher Kirby
Mason
Suzie Steen
Betty Lou
Madeleine Eastoe
Lori
Aden Young
Dilworth
Wen Bin Huang
Li - as a child
Shu Guang Liang
Jing Tring - 8 yrs
Ye Wang
Cunfar - 14 yrs
Neng Neng Zhang
Gong Mei
Wan Shi Xu
Shen Yu
Shao Wei Yi
Yang Ping
Hui Cong Zhan
Teacher Song
Ji Feng Sun
Headmaster
Zhi Xue Chai
Official Guan
Chang Suo Zhang
Official Chan Feng
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