Charles Foster, the Houston lawyer who was instrumental in getting Li out of detention in , remains friends with the dancer. Both provided input for the screenplay by Jan Sardi. In , Foster helped another dancer from a communist country — Carlos Acosta of the National Ballet of Cuba — to obtain residency in the U.
All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. On a visit to Australia to perform at the Sydney Opera House, the family was in Brisbane when Li took Sophie to the park and she was given a red balloon. It popped and startled everyone. Back in Houston, Sophie was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf. From that moment, the Lis' lives changed completely. At first, Li refused to believe there was no cure, that he couldn't fix it.
He took Sophie to China to seek out help with the top acupuncturist there. They went to a Chinese healer on the mountains in Li's hometown.
They made a choice that Sophie would later come to question and it nearly tore the family apart. Li and Mary made a conscious decision to accept the advice of medical experts to fit Sophie with hearing aids rather than teaching her sign language.
The music was turned off and the record players put away but still Sophie "didn't hear anything". Mary quickly understood what she had to do. The sacrifice she needed to make for her daughter.
It makes them independent in the world. It gives them opportunity. I wanted her to have all of that. Mary decided to give up her international career to teach her daughter to speak and hear. She was at the height of her career, but Mary says she didn't have any other option. More performances or a daughter that could be independent? Mary McKendry had grown up in Rockhampton in a large family of five brothers and two sisters.
At the age of eight, she was taken to the ballet and she fell in love with it. From the moment she walked through the doors and heard the music it was where she wanted to be and it became her passion from that day on. At the age of 15, her teacher told her parents she was good enough to audition for the Royal Ballet School in London.
She was accepted and living in London at the age of It was physically very punishing on your body but lucky for me I was a very strong Queensland girl," she said. She went into the studio and quietly sat down at the barre. And then she saw a man walking across the room with a big fur hat, big boots, big scarf. It was Rudolph Nureyev. In , she joined the Houston Ballet where she met Li. Grant Schreiber. About The Author.
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