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.
as Elizabeth Mackey
as Li Cunxin - adult
as Li Cunxin - teenage
as Li Cunxin - boy
as Niang
as Ben Stevenson
as Charles Foster
as US Federal Judge
as Mary McKendry
as Lori
as Bobby Cordner
as Dilworth
as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
as David
as Houston Ballet Conductor
