Xin Ying is a dancer, choreographer, mother, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of movement, technology, and digital legacy. An Onassis ONX Fellow and Dance Magazine Cover Star, she has been a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company since 2011, performing 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, praised by The New York Times as “transcendent and heroic.”

Beyond performance, Xin creates work that moves across choreography, immersive media, and emerging technology. Her improvisational practice has been widely recognized across major media and social platforms, and her commissions include Co.Lab Dance, Ballet Arkansas, Art Bath, and 92NY’s 90th Anniversary Celebration. She has collaborated with artists including Nacho Duato, Annie-B Parson, and Hofesh Shechter, and assisted Artistic Director Janet Eilber on projects such as The Feast with Long Beach Opera.

Her recent works extend dance into new technological forms. In the folds of her purple, developed through Works & Process at the Guggenheim, explores the intersection of body, memory, and machine through immersive performance. MarthaBot, a LLM trained on Graham’s archive, reimagines legacy as a living system. Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, recipient of the 2024 Google Artist + Machine Intelligence Faculty Research Award, transforms Graham’s iconic solo through volumetric film and interactive technology. Letter to Nobody, premiered at The Joyce Theater during the Company’s 99th season, uses generative AI to create a duet across time between Xin and Martha Graham. The Brooklyn Rail described her work as “beautiful and unsettlingly posthuman.”

Xin holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Research from NYU and has been a featured panelist at Romancing the Machine: Dancing at the Edge of Intelligence. Her work continues to reimagine dance as an evolving ecosystem—where bodies, archives, and machines move together.