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Li Cunxin (born 26 January 1961) is a Chinese-Australian former ballet dancer and stockbroker. He is currently the artistic director of Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, Australia.〔Queensland Ballet (2012). (Li Cunxin returns to the stage as Queensland Ballet's new Artistic Director ). Retrieved 1 October 2012.〕 ==Early life== Li was one of 7 brothers, born into poverty in the Li Commune near the city of Qingdao in the Shandong province of People's Republic of China. At the age of eleven, he was selected by Madame Mao's cultural advisors to attend the Beijing Dance Academy, where students endured 16-hour days of training, which he attended for seven years. Li Cunxin was found by the Beijing Dance Academy at the age of ten during a blue audition. After that, he was in the academy and did the daily training at the academy. The training in Beijing Dance Academy was brutal, they needed to start at five thirty and slept at nine in the evening. He was really good at the political class. However, Li was not a good students for Ballet, until he met Teacher Xiao, who had passion in Ballet. Teacher Xiao's passion influenced Li, and he became really good dancer after seven years' training. Ben Stevenson taught two semester at Beijing Dance Academy, and he offered the full scholarship for Li to study at Houston Ballet summer school. After the study in the summer school, Li had a hard decision to choose whether stay in America with his lover and his dance dream or go back to China his own country. He chose to chase his dream so he stayed in west, but he was cut off from his family for entire seven years. After a performance at Washington DC with the Houston Ballet, Barbara Bush invited him to go to white and offered help for him to communicate with family. Chinese cultural attaché invited Li to the Chinese Embassy after his Swan Lake performance. He was really scared but they said that Vice-President Bush had intervened on this thing. Li's parents finally got the permission to go to America and had the chance to watch his performance for the first in his life. When he was little, his parents did not have the money to travel to Beijing to watch his show. That was a dream for Li to dance in front his parents.〔 He was one of the first students from the Beijing Dance Academy to go to the United States with Zhang Weichang under the financial support by the central government of People's Republic of China. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Li Cunxin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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