Jin Xing

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Jin Xing ( Chinese  金星 , Pinyin Jin Xing ; . Kor  김성 , rev.  Gim Seong * 13. August 1967 in Shenyang , China ) is a Chinese dancer and choreographer of modern dance , dedicated to 28 years of gender reassignment surgery underwent. She lives with her three adopted children and her German husband in Shanghai and runs the Jin Xing Dance Theater there .

Life

Jin Xing ("'Gold Star', i.e. Venus ") was born to members of the Korean minority of China in Shenyang, Manchuria . At the age of nine, she started dance training at a Chinese military academy against her parents' wishes . In addition to classical military training, she also received lessons in Russian ballet , traditional Chinese dance and acrobatics. The artist, who had been trapped in the wrong body since she was six, quickly worked her way up the military academy and achieved the degree of colonel at the age of 17 . At the same time she was named the best dancer in China.

In 1988 she received a one-year scholarship to the Modern Dance Company in New York as part of an artistic exchange program , where she was allowed to work with many well-known artists as well as teachers such as Merce Cunningham , Martha Graham and José Limon . In 1989, after the Tian'anmen massacre, the United States extended her residence permit indefinitely. After she won countless awards in the USA, including the "Best Choreographer Award" at an American dance festival in 1991, she taught at the Center for Expressive Dance in Rome from 1991 to 1993. After her teaching assignment ended in 1993, the artist went on a world tour as a dancer and choreographer .

In 1994 she returned to China, founded the Beijing Modern Dance Ensemble and in 1995 underwent the first gender reassignment officially accepted by the People's Republic of China. In 2000 she founded the Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theater named after her . Henceforth, she is considered an internationally known ballerina and contemporary dancer who is extremely popular in China, the United States and Europe.

In the 2005 produced film Revenge of the Warrior - Tom Yum Goong she plays a female lead. Between 2015 and 2017 she hosted the Jin Xing show ( Chinese  金星秀 , Pinyin jīnxīng xiù ) on Dragon TV ( Chinese  东方 卫视 , Pinyin Dōngfāng Wèishì ).

Works

  • Half Dream, 1991
  • Sun Flower, 1996
  • Red and Black, 1998
  • The Last Red Butterfly, 1999
  • The Eternal Present Tense, 2001
  • Cross Border, 2002
  • Person to Person, together with dance company Rubato 2002
  • Shanghai Tango, 2003
  • Eidos / Tao, together with dance company Rubato 2005
  • Shanghai Beauty, together with dance company Rubato 2005

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Individual evidence

  1. 《金星秀》 要 叫板 崔永元 只 采 敢 聊 的 明星 , 搜狐 娱乐. January 28, 2015. Accessed June 22, 2019. 
  2. “毒 舌” 金 姐 摊上 事 , 《金星秀》 停播 原因 全 解密 , 新疆 晨报 客户 端. August 31, 2017.