Title Mao's Last Dancer Overview 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. Tagline 最后的舞者 Genres Drama, Romance Keywords costume, song, village, promise, ballet Production Companies Great Scott Productions Pty. Ltd. Production Countries Australia Spoken Languages English, 普通话 Original Language en Runtime minutes 117 Release Year 2009
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 21 million USD