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The Young Business Forum and Queensland Ballet invite you to join Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin Tuesday 26 August 2014 |
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The rehearsal will be followed by drinks with the dancers and the Queensland Ballet team. About Li Cunxin, Artistic Director, Queensland Ballet and Queensland's Australian of the Year 2014 At the age of eleven, Li was selected by Madame Mao's cultural advisors to attend the Beijing Dance Academy. In 1979 he joined Ben Stevenson's Houston Ballet company as an exchange student and later went on to achieve the top rank of Principal in 1982. He moved to Melbourne in 1995 with his wife, dancer Mary McKendry, to join The Australian Ballet as a Principal Artist. Li’s awarding-winning autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer, is an international bestseller which became a blockbuster film in 2009. Before taking on the role of Artistic Director at Queensland Ballet, Li worked in Melbourne as a senior manager at Bell Potter, one of the largest stockbroking firms in Australia. Li is credited with turning around Queensland Ballet, which has enjoyed a sell-out 2013/14 season under his guidance. More recently, Queensland Ballet broke a 54-year box office record for this year’s production of Romeo & Juliet with over 15,000 people in the audience. |
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Following light refreshments from 5.30pm in the Green Room, we invite you to enjoy the inner workings of a private studio rehearsal with Queensland Ballet's company dancers and Artistic Director, Li Cunxin. 
