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Jin Xing was born in Guangdong, China in 1969. She has said that since she was six she felt like a girl trapped in a boy's body. Her GRS took place in 1998, in China, where surgeons have allegedly been performing GRS since 1938. Her mother, although troubled by her sex change, gave her total emotional support. In fact, she later found a baby for adoption so that Jin Xing could become a mother.
"People complain about the system, saying there is too little freedom in China, but there is always enough space to accomplish something incredible."
Jin Xing
China's most celebrated modern dancer is fabulously talented - a world-class dancer and choreographer and she is fluent in five languages. Jin Xing, (which means golden star) has acted, directed, choreographed,  and danced into people's hearts and to much public acclaim everywhere from New York to Rome to Brussels.
A former Colonel in the Shenyang Military Dance Troupe, Jin Xing was the first Chinese dancer to be awarded an arts scholarship to study in America. At age 19, she studied dance in New York under Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Jose Limon, some of the biggest names in dance. In New York, the piece "Half Dream," included in Shanghai Tango, won her the award for "Best Choreographer" at the 1991 American Dance Festival.
"Like my sex change operation, people ask if I did it for a man, there's no man in the universe that I would do that for. It's for me. I am not lying to myself, I did it for myself, its my life."
Jin Xing
She has danced throughout Europe and managed her own dance company in Beijing. Now, she's in Shanghai with her production Shanghai Tango.
In Shanghai, the energy and economic development are good," comments Jin Xing, "but Shanghai needs modern art." Jin Xing's goal  is to raise the level of Shanghai's modern art, in all its forms, to the level of its international counterparts. Meanwhile, she also wants to internationalize the city's art scene. After a national 20 city tour of Shanghai Tango, Jin Xing will push Western opera on Shanghai with Carmena Burrana, with dancers from both her company and abroad performing together
Besides numerous offers of commissions to choreograph new dances, she is the owner of a bar/restaurant and performance space in Beijing. At the same time, she is branching into acting, appearing in a joint Hungarian-Chinese film production, and auditioning for the role of Madame Mao Zedong in another production. |
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