Movie Review: Mao's Last Dancer

Belinder and I started the day with a free movie. We then spent the rest of the afternoon window shopping until she had to pick the kids up from school.

I am glad I was able to see this on the big screen - I thought I was going to miss it in the cinema's. The dancing was amazing!

Plot: 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