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Xin Ji

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Dancer | Choreographer | Educator🕺🏻
Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Film @xfilmj 📷

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We talk to one of this year’s 𝐀𝐀𝐅 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 recipients, dance artist @xin_with_ji, who used this time to learn from practitioners across other art forms. This has led to his collaboration with painter @guotentag and the development of 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑎𝑔, an excerpt of which was presented at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in June earlier this year. Without the Fellowship, he says, “I don’t think I would ever have been brave enough to think about challenging the form.”

𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝？

More info in the link in our bio. Applications close tomorrow, Thu 17 Sep ♥ by @xin_with_ji

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Drawing from Xin Ji’s debut solo work Body Story, this intimate gallery performance traces the journey of a body through moments where the emotional and physical collide.

Performed with long-time collaborator and composer Alistair Deverick, the work moves through uncertainty, recklessness and euphoria, unfolding an intimate personal narrative through movement, live sound, costume and image. Set within Objectspace, this version brings Body Story 0.25 into close proximity with the audience, offering ways to consider the body as a vehicle for resistance, alchemy and transformation.

@xin_with_ji @alistair_deverick @objectspace

Objectspace | Sat 17 Oct
4.30pm doors, 5pm performance | 30 min
FREE, Bookings required - Tickets booking up fast so book early for this show!

🔗 Visit tempodancefestival.co.nz/events-2026 for tickets (link in our bio) by @xin_with_ji

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We are so incredibly grateful to everybody who has come along to 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 so far and for all your lovely words and support! Tonight is our closing night and we are sold out ♥

“As a debut solo work, 𝐵𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 showcases Xin Ji’s boldness as both a performer and a storyteller. It is a fearless exploration of the human body in all its complexities—fragile, resilient, evolving, and undefined.” — Blackguard Media Reviews

“Xin Ji’s performance is thrilling, enlivening, and difficult to look away from (although there’s plenty else gorgeous to look at onstage).” — @sbrookbrooks, 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟

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𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲
Feb 18-22 at @qtheatre

Presented by @aucklandpride 2025: Tētahi Ki Tētahi | Pride Elevates

Dramaturg @yellowperilproductions
Sound Design @jalistajeverick
Costume Design @6x4online
Lighting Design @rowanpierce
Set Design @taliapua
AV Design @q_zone__
Operator @jazmin.whittall
Production Manager @rex.reynaud
Assistant Producer @pchanggg
Producer @incorrect_pin
Photography @jinkic

With thanks to Season Gallery, Wellesley Studios, Te Oro, The New Zealand Dance Company, Studio 55, John Verryt, Sue Pua, and Public Record by @xin_with_ji

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Babes in Toronto 🩶✨ by @xin_with_ji

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Toronto, thank you for welcoming us with so much warmth and sunshine ☀️

@summerworksfun, thank you for inviting us, and for all the care and hard work that made our little Body Story journey here happen so beautifully. Especially to everyone working front&behind the scenes, thank you for all your support, patience, and all the smiles. I feel like those smiles are now permanently part of the Body Story archive😊

And a huge thank you to everyone who supported us and made it possible for us to even be on this journey in the first place. There are so many people who helped us get here, in so many different ways. Without that support, none of this would have happened. We really, really appreciate you.

To my Body Story fam: they say one of the biggest tests of a relationship is travelling together. After this trip, I can confidently say I’m ready to marry all of you💍

And I have to shout out two extra special humans, @yellowperilproductions & @davidfarrier. All the laughter, the incredible energy, and all the running around and support… somehow everything aligned perfectly for us to have this beautiful time together on the other side of the world. Honestly, what else can I say. 缘分. It was meant to be✨

Thank you to every beautiful human I met through this experience. You are what made this whole thing so much more joyful, colourful, and unforgettable.

So let me quietly say this through the screen:

I really hope our paths cross again somewhere, sometime, not too far away.

Until next time 🫶🏼 by @xin_with_ji

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“Raw, stunning, deeply moving. A beautifully executed work.” - Annie Pokel 🔥

Body Story
by Xin Ji @xin_with_ji

In this dynamic solo work by dance artist Xin Ji, the story of his body unravels through moments where the emotional and physical collide. Uncertainty, recklessness and euphoria slide into an intimate personal narrative - offering ways to consider our bodies as vehicles for resistance and alchemy.

🗓️August 14th @ 6:00 PM
🗓️August 15th @ 1:00 PM
📍The Theatre Centre Franco Boni Theatre @thetheatrecentre

🎟️Tickets on sale now!
🔗Link in bio for more Festival details

This presentation of Body Story is generously supported with funding from Creative New Zealand. @creativenz

Photo by Jinki Cambronero

#summerworksfun #fightorflight #virtuosity #bodystory by @xin_with_ji

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SPACE DRAG / Self-Intro

Sound Design: @alistair_deverick
AV: @untitled_peace
Dramaturg: @bettygrumble

Presented through @performancespace Queer Development Program 2026
At @pact_sydney Centre for Emerging Artists

📸 @josephmayersphotography by @xin_with_ji

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SPACE DRAG / Self-Intro

Sound Design: @alistair_deverick
AV: @untitled_peace
Dramaturg: @bettygrumble

Presented through @performancespace Queer Development Program 2026
At @pact_sydney Centre for Emerging Artists

📸 @rchristiaanp by @xin_with_ji

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A slightly late little Sydney wrap-up / appreciation post 🫶🏼

Earlier this winter I spent two very special weeks in Sydney with @performancespace Queer Development Program at @pact_sydney, developing and sharing a new little work, SPACE DRAG / Self-Intro🟢

I came into the residency wanting to make something that felt like a self-introduction through my body, and over those two weeks this little piece slowly found its shape. I’m really grateful for the space to play, question, try things, change my mind, and eventually share it with two beautiful sold-out audiences👏🏼

🥁Sound Design by superstar @alistair_deverick
💻AV by the talent himself @untitled_peace

A very special thank you to @bettygrumble, for your generosity, care and support throughout this creative process. Our check-ins gave me so much clarity and confidence when I needed it. Thx You Body! 🦵🏼

Huge love and thanks to the whole Performance Space and PACT teams for holding such a generous, thoughtful and beautifully organised two weeks. To all the mentors who shared their practices with us, and to this gorgeous group of QDP artists, thank you for the conversations, laughs, watching, listening, making and just being together.

I arrived in Sydney not really knowing what these two weeks would become, and left with new friendships, new questions, and a little piece of work that I feel very close to.

A very special chapter. Thank you Sydney ✨

📸 @josephmayersphotography by @xin_with_ji

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SPACE DRAG 👄
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2026 @aucklandartgallery

SPACE DRAG explores the meeting point between two artistic practices, where body, image, gesture and surface come into conversation.

This work was developed through my Asian Artists’ Fund Creative Fellowship, an ongoing research journey between Tony & I exploring collaboration, process and the space between our practices.

Performance: Tony Guo & Xin Ji @guotentag
Sound: Alistair Deverick @alistair_deverick
Dramaturg: Nathan Joe @yellowperilproductions
Photography: Jinki Cambronero @jinkic

A special thx U to Hutch @hutch.d.wilco , Moira @moi_.aguiar and Fern @ferninsh from Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki for your generosity, care and support throughout this process 🤍

Supported by Asian Artists’ Fund Creative Fellowship, administered by @aksatellites with support from Creative New Zealand, Foundation North and Auckland Council. taken in Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki by @xin_with_ji

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💛 taken in Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki by @xin_with_ji

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A little SPACE DRAG afterglow ✨

Biggest love to my artistic partner in crime @guotentag 🩶
Thank you for building this strange little universe with me.

To our outside eye / fairy godmother @yellowperilproductions @incorrect_pin , thank you for being there from the first spark✨

To the sound genius hiding behind the scenes @alistair_deverick , you know how much i appreciate you 😜

And all the beautiful humans who helped us along the way @untitled_peace @veronica_lyu , thank U for your time, hands and heart 💪🏼🫶🏼

Thank you @aucklandartgallery for holding the space for this little world we created 🖼️

This project has grown out of my Asian Artists’ Fund Creative Fellowship, administered by @aksatellites with support from @creativenz , @foundationnorth and @aklcouncil by @xin_with_ji

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