Associate Artists

XU Yi-ming was born in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China.  He began his dance training at the Beijing Runliang Dance School in 1997.  He joined the Guangzhou Song and Dance Company in 2001 and with the Beijing Modern Dance Company later that year.  XU became a founding member of BeijingDance/LDTX in 2005 and became a teacher at the BeijingDance/LDTX Dance Center in 2013.  XU has participated in various overseas cultural projects and performed in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, South Korea, and the USA. XU’s major choreographies include: The Encounter of Confucius, Waiting Alone, The Snail, Head Against Earth, Solitude.  In May 2017, his work, Solitude, commissioned by Ballett Chemnitz of the Städtische Theater Chemnitz in Germany, received a Saxony Artistic Award.