Journey of a transgender choreographer
Dance
Stanford Lively Arts presents Jin Xing Dance Theatre
Published 04/24/2008
by Joe Landini
http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=dance&article=116 (http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=dance&article=116)
Queer performance takes on an international slant this weekend, as trans choreographer-led Jin Xing Dance Theatre appears at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium. Jin, a former colonel in the Chinese army, is the first transwoman to be recognized as a cultural pioneer in China. In Germany, Die Zeit (The Times ) has called Jin "probably the world's best dancer."