Mao's Last Dancer screening + Q&A
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| When |
Mon, April 11,7:30 pm - 9:45 pm |
| Where |
AMC Loews 19 , East 19th st & Broadway, New York (map) |
| Admission |
Open |
| Description |
Feature a Q+A session with Li Cunxin (who the movie is based on), as well as a small dance performance!... Screening is part of the release of the upcoming DVD. This 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. O
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