Lyric Theatre, QPACQueensland Ballet artistic director Li Cunxin takes the stage for first time in 18 years in pleasing yet predictable balletWhen Li Cunxin " better known as Mao's Last Dancer " first performed outside the crushing confines of 1970s communist China, it was in The Nutcracker. Back then Li, who had been plucked from rural grinding poverty to attend Madame Mao's dance school in Beijing, had been sent to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM on December 11, 2017