Mao's Last Dancer

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CD Details

Released: October 16, 2009
Originally Released: 2009
Label: Sony Australia

Tracks:

1.Out Of The Well
2.Village Life
3.Lullaby
4.Story Of The Frog
5.Family
6.The Archer
7.Pas De Deux
8.Turning Points
9.Giselle: Hunt And Peasant's Dance
10.Sirhe Nodrog's Book Of Ballet Exercises For The Pianoforte
11.Madame's Modern Ballet
12.Becoming A Dancer
13.Free Dance
14.Dance Of Longing
15.Don Quixote: Pas De Deux
16.Sonata in D K576: Andante
17.White Swan Lake
18.Black Swan Lake
19.The Consulate
20.Pas De Deux (Reprise)
21.Brush Dance "Zheng Ban Qiao"
22.Break Up And Reunion
23.Village Dance And Finale

Product Description:

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. Directed By Bruce Beresford (driving Miss Daisy, Puberty Blues, the Club, Breaker Morant) Staring Chi Cao (principal Dancer for Birmingham Royal Ballet) As Adult LI Cunxin, Kyle Maclachlan (desperate Housewives, Sex in the City, Twin Peaks), Joan Chen (the Home Song Stories, Twin Peaks), Bruce Greenwood (star Trek, Dejá Vu, Capote).