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GONG Xingxing is an independent choreographer from China.Her work often wanders between extreme looseness and rigorous control, capturing the dark side of life, trauma, and silent violence. "Conflict appeals to me; it activates a great deal of imaginative space. When you dive into it with reflection, you can glimpse the most realistic picture."

Chief Director of Watching for Dreams, a project funded by China National Arts Fund; choreographer-director specially invited by Scapino Ballet Rotterdam; young artist supported and funded by the National Young Dancers Development Plan set up by the China Dancers Association; choreographer-director of a work invited by Chinese Dance for 12 Days at National Centre for the Performing Arts; top-notch choreographer-director of Chinese "top dancers development program"; commissioned artist of "Youth Incubation Platform" at Shanghai International Dance Center. 

has won

gold awards, silver awards and other awards in Spain international dance competitions, International Choreographic Competition Hannover, Seoul international dance competitions, Chinese Dance Lotus Award, Five North China Provinces Dance Competition, Beijing dance competition.

has been invited by Beijing Dance Festival, Guangdong Dance Festival, Hong Kong City Contemporary Art Festival, the 19th China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Beautiful Dances of National Centre for the Performing Arts, Costa Rica Art Festival, American Dance Salad Festival, Spring International Arts Festival, the 48th Kuopio Dance Festival, Julidans Festival Amsterdam, Tel Aviv Dance Festival, Toronto Waterfront Festival. has visited America, Belgium, Canada, Israel, Finland, Tunisia, Albania, India, Houston, Lebanon many times. 

After finishing her study at the Univerity for Music and Performance Art in Frankfurt Germany 2001, Sita joied MS Schrittmacher at Staatstheater Oldenburg, worked with Itzik Galili in Groningen and Krisztna de Chatel in Amsterdam 2004-2007. In 2007 she joind Hofesh Shechter Company and worked with him as a dancer, workshop leader an choreographic assistant until 2018. She re-staged his work at companies suchas NDT I, Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet Basel, Staatsballett Berlin, Aterballetto Italy, Hessisches Staatsballett Wiesbaden and Staatstheater Kassel. As a freelance Choreographer she creted commissioned works, e.g. for the Hessische Staatsballett Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Kassel, Stadttheter Pforzheim, Volkstheater Rostock. Upcoming commissions in 2024 with Staatstheater Braunschweig and MiR Dance Company - Stadttheater Gelsenkirchen. University creations with Verve post graduate company — Norther School of Contemporary Dance Leeds, Bodhi project postgraduate company- Sead Experimental Academy of Dance Salzburg and Universities such a the Folkwang University Essen, HfMT Köln, Liz Anton Bruckner Private University.

Ostheimer's focus today is on developing and deepening her own movement aesthetics philosophy and choreogrphic poetry. Since 2017 she is the Artistic Director of her berlin based platform Sita Ostheimer Company, collaborating with guest dancers, a set group of music composrs and light-designer Barnaby Booth. With the Companie artists she created work such as Molimo, Chasm, Us, Two, Human in pieces, Everything that’s left, The Inevitable and You. The work performed at Fuori Programma Festival Rome, Bolzano Danza, Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia, Daegu Interntional Dance Festival Korea, Španski Borci Cultural Center Ljubljana, Detebre Dansa Spain and Dock11 Berlin. In 2021 Sita Ostheimer received an Artist Prize by POOL -INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival BERLIN / DOCK 1, for her ongoing work in Berlin on stage and outstandingaesthetics in choreography and film. With her workshops seris COMPLEX SIMPLICITY, she shares her philosophy and physicality wrld wide.

Xiexin Dance Theatre (XDT) dedicates itself to the creation of original contemporary dance works, body (movement / connection) research and contemporary dance education and it’s supported by 3 pillars, namely, XDT - Xiexin Dance Theatre for the original creation and performance, XDT- Education, and the clothing brand XDT- Vanguard body. Since its establishment in 2014, the company has gradually become one of the driving forces behind the development of contemporary dance in China.

Xiexin Dance Theatre highly values the exploration of the unique language of the body and amplifies the body connection technology, thus forming pioneering choreographic ideas in terms of its technology style. When it comes to the creation, Xie Xin’s works stress the notion that dance technology shall help express our emotion. Meanwhile, all the body movement possibilities aim to find the most accurate body language to present a particular piece of dance. In this way, the abstract dance works can truly connect with the audience with a distinct style of Xinxin.

Xie Xin, artistic director of XDT, has won many gold awards in modern dance competitions at home and abroad. Her works have been invited by a growing number of influential international art festivals, including the Kuopio Dance Festival in Finland, Colours Dance Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, Festival Paris l'Eté in France, STEPS Dance Festival in Switzerland, Oriente Occidente Dance Festival in Italy, Wiesbaden Theatre Performance Season in Germany, Sibnik Dance Festival in Croatia, Split Dance Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hongkong City Contemporary Dance Festival, China Contemporary Dance Biennale, Spring for Chinese Arts in Beijing, China Dance for 12 Days in the National Center for Performing Arts, Fall For Dance Festival in New York and Maison de la Danse in Lyon, France.

Each year, the company would invite internationally renowned choreographers to Shanghai for the residence projects with new creation and educational programs (dance workshops). XDT is committed to building an international exchange platform for contemporary dancers, and focusing on the creation and high-quality presentation of international cooperation projects.

Its repertoire includes From IN, T.I.M.E, Harmonic series, UNKNOWN, Obsessive, Entropy, Reflection, Falling, Special Movement, Plus, FLOATING , FLOW MARK, Face 2 Face II-Time·Design·Boby, Murmur, Moment, My Other Me, Listen to the body, the Nearest Far, etc.

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