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 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.
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
- Wang Shuangbao as Dia
- Aden Young as Dilworth
- Jack Thompson as Judge Woodrow Seals
- Penne Hackforth-Jones as Cynthia Dodds
- Chengwu Guo as Li Cunxin - teenage