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.
Top Cast
Bruce Greenwood as Ben Stevenson
Kyle MacLachlan as Charles Foster
Joan Chen as Niang
Chi Cao as Li Cunxin - adult
Amanda Schull as Elizabeth Mackey
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