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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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 , 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.

Biography Drama Music Romance. Rated PG for a brief violent image, some sensuality, language and incidental smoking. Did you know Edit. Li wanted Cao to portray him. Goofs At Madame Mao's dance school in Beijing, the girls are wearing leotards with high-cut hips. That style of leotard wasn't introduced until sometime in the s. Quotes Li - as an adult : Ben not understand. Connections Featured in Huckabee: Episode dated 25 September User reviews 60 Review.

Top review. A Bruce Beresford masterpiece. This cineaste and balletomane had given up many years ago any hope of ever seeing the dance rendered adequately on film. Enter Bruce Beresford. I suppose every ladies' book club in the English-speaking world has read Mao's Last Dancer, so if you wanted to make a film based on that autobiography, you'd first have to find a brave director.

Well, this is it. Linking together life in desolate inner China and a sophisticated western world has been done before. But there is an emotional story here, and the casting agencies deserve enormous credit for finding such competent people.

I mean, do you find an actor and teach him to dance, or do you get a dancer to act? Whatever; the lead in this film can dance very well indeed, and his acting is more than competent. I won't retell the story. There was a huge argument. Li couldn't even get a word in. Actually, says Li, "there was a lot more than an argument, they were screaming at each other. I'd given her the opportunity to speak to the whole world and I didn't want her to close that off," she said.

There was a six-month estrangement until Sophie wrote her parents a letter. She still loved them. She didn't resent them. We knew her struggles, but not nearly.

Sophie was really suffering a great deal. Her parents started to see her point of view. They realised they had to meet her halfway. They decided to learn Auslan.

Soon her siblings joined in too. It makes my life so much easier and it's hilarious watching them learn," Sophie says. Mary has been a teacher and coach at the Australian Ballet and ballet mistress for the Queensland Ballet's artistic staff since Twenty-nine years after leaving the stage to teach her daughter to speak, Mary will make a comeback.

She will play the queen as a guest star in the Queensland Ballet's Sleeping Beauty production. And Mary has now written her own book about her life, Mary's Last Dance.

But first and foremost, Mary is a mother. And she says she's proud of the woman Sophie has become. And it taught us about another world.

We are broader people for it," she says. Today, Sophie is happy and confident as a deaf person who signs and uses cochlear implants. She lives not far from her parents in Brisbane and works as a project officer at digital lifestyle guide The Urban List. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.

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