# Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

English · Released 2009-10-01

Mao’s Last Dancer is a 2009 English film.

## Storyline
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 falls 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.

## Common questions

### When was Mao’s Last Dancer released?
Mao’s Last Dancer was released on 1 October 2009.

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