Founder and artistic director of XDT (XIEXIN DANCE THEATER), a jury member of the “Lotus Cup” Modern Dance Competition (China’s largest contemporary dance competition), Champion of 2nd Dance Smash (a popular TV reality show), Executive Director of Shanghai Dancers’ Association, the guest choreographer of HESSISCHE STAATS BALLET (Wiesbaden) and BALLETBOYZ DANCE COMPANY (London), Associate Artist of the Shanghai International Dance Centre Theatre, Guest Professor at the Shanghai University Of Sport, and guest choreographer at the Shanghai Dance Theater Co., Ltd. She is an artist sponsored by China National Arts Fund (CNAF), CFLAC Foundation and Young Artists Platform of China Dancers Association (CDA). As the first female Chinese choreographer commissioned by Aurélie Dupont, the director of Paris Opera Ballet, her work will premiere during the 2023-2024 season in Paris.
Successively, she worked in Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC), Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre, Beijing Tao Dance Theatre and Beijing Dance/LDTX, and participated in performance tours with these dance troupes in Art Festivals held in over 25 countries. In 2014, she founded XIEXIN DANCE THEATER and started her career as an independent choreographer and artistic director of the company that bears her name. Jorma UOTINEN, then Artistic Director of the Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, commented: “In Xie Xin’s work, I have found the future I haven’t found in the development of European modern dance. Her works have extremely sensitive uniqueness and specificity”. Ms. Wendy PERRON, former Editor-in-Chief of Dance magazine in America, praised XIE Xin: “An extraordinary dancer whose work is similar to that of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre and resembles the floating clouds and waters, but more powerful and original.”
In recent years, XIE Xin has been invited to dance with XTD works in many European and Asian art festivals, including Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, Colours Dance Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, Festival Paris Lete in France, STEPS Dance Festival in Switzerland, Wiesbaden Theatre Performance Season in Germany, Croatian Sprite and Hibernik Dance Festival, Hong Kong Art Festival, Chinese Dance Biennale, Spring for Chinese Arts, National Center for the Performing Arts Chinese Dance For 12 Days, etc.