Former Houston Ballet star Li Cunxin, whose best-selling 2003 memoir Mao's Last Dancer has been made into a new feature film, will discuss and sign his book at 4:00 pm on Sunday, August 1, at the ...

Li Cunxin, who found international fame for his remarkable rise from rural China to become one of the world’s leading ballet dancers, has announced his retirement as the artistic director of ...

The film Mao's Last Dancer tells the remarkable true story of dancer and artist Li Cunxin who, after being invited to join the Houston Ballet by Artistic Director Ben Stevenson during a visit to China ...

Bruce Beresford’s “Mao’s Last Dancer” tells the kind of inspirational true-life story that seems made for the movies. Li Cunxin (played by three actors as the character ages from child to teenager to ...

STEPHANIE ZILLMAN, REPORTER: Ballet is Li Cunxin and Mary Li’s life’s work. MARY LI, QUEENSLAND BALLET PRINCIPAL REPETITEUR: Yeah, we were just a good height together, I think. That one’s beautiful.

Li Cunxin AO has opened up about his love of a very Queensland pastime and what he has been up to since he retired as Queensland Ballet’s artistic director. Bodysurfing is a “learned love” for Li ...

Li Cunxin is one of the most talented ballet stars ever to emerge from China, but his biggest claim to fame happened far away from the stage. In 1981 while a resident at the Houston Ballet, Li ...

BRISBANE, Australia - It's all about the journey for Li Cunxin. The life of the man known as Mao's Last Dancer has taken a trajectory only possible in the past few decades, spanning peasant beginnings ...