Xin Ying is a dancer, choreographer, mother, and interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of movement, technology, and digital legacy. 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.