Xin Ying, a professor, dancer, choreographer, and educator, is currently serving as the Vice Dean of the School of Music and Dance at Sichuan College of Culture and Arts (SCUCA). She is also the Principal Dancer of the world-renowned Martha Graham Dance Company, a cover feature of Dance Magazine in the United States, and a Cultural Ambassador for U.S.-China Arts Exchange at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. Additionally, she is a recipient of a personal arts grant and has served as a multi-year lecturer for the Arts Education Department Lecture Series at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, as featured on CCTV America. As a multidisciplinary artist, she is dedicated to exploring the intersection of movement, technique, and digital heritage.A principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company since 2011, she has performed many of Graham’s most iconic roles, including Herodiade, Errand into the Maze, Chronicle, Cave of the Heart, and The Chosen One in Rite of Spring, a performance praised by The New York Times as “transcendent and heroic.”

Beyond performance, Xin is a boundary-pushing creator, blending AI, generative technology, and dance archives. Her improvisational work has garnered attention across major media and social platforms, and her choreographic commissions include Co.Lab Dance, Ballet Arkansas, Art Bath, and 92NY’s 90th Anniversary Celebration. She has collaborated with choreographers Nacho Duato, Annie-B Parson, and Hofesh Shechter and assisted Martha Graham Artistic Director Janet Eilber on creative projects, including The Feast with Long Beach Opera MarthaBot is a custom GPT currently in development, fine-tuned on Graham’s writings, choreography notes, and dancer surveys. Lamentation: Dancing the Archive is a prototype installation that uses volumetric film and AR tracking to reimagine Graham’s iconic solo; it is set to show at Jacob’s Pillow in 2025 as part of its continued evolution. The project received a 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award. Letter to Nobody, premiering at The Joyce Theater with Martha Graham’s 99th season, employs generative AI to allow Xin to “dance with” Martha Graham—bridging past and future through technology.Xin holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Research from NYU and was a featured panelist at ROMANCING THE MACHINE | DANCING AT THE EDGE OF INTELLIGENCE, a symposium on AI and movement. She continues to push the boundaries of dance, archive, and emerging technology—ensuring that history is not just preserved, but activated, questioned, and reimagined.U.S. dance magazine describes Xin Ying as having “elongated lines, strong technique, and genuine emotion,” expressing anticipation to see more of her on stage. She has also been a brand ambassador for the global fashion brand Kate Spade in its autumn campaign, with her photos featured in Vogue and other world-renowned magazines.

Selected Works:

Performed as the Red Angel in "Diversion of Angels"

Led the dance in "Chronicle"

Led the dance in "Maple Leaf Rag"

Solo performances in Graham’s signature works "Satyric Festival Song" and "Deep Song" 

Renowned Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato’s soloist in "Depak Ine" for the company;

Echo in "Echo" by Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis for the company;

Original lead role in "woodland", a work created by a Swedish choreographer and funded by the U.S. Congress;

Creator of the 3D brush dance piece "Nest" in collaboration with Google;

Commissioned by the American Ballet Theatre for a new creation;

Starred as Martha Graham herself in "I Once Loved You", a work specially crafted for the company by acclaimed dance theater artist Annie B Parson.