Works & Process at Guggenheim: In the Folds of Her Purple by Xin Ying

🗓️ April 26, 7PM 📍Guggenheim New York, Peter B. Lewis Theater 🎟️ Tickets on Sale, Price w/ Fees: $25.00 - $94.00

Martha Graham Dance Company principal dancer Xin Ying presents excerpts from her new work In the Folds of Her Purple, in partnership with Onassis ONX and PS21. An interdisciplinary artist, Ying explores the intersection of movement, technology, and digital legacy in her works. In the Folds of Her Purple draws inspiration from Martha Graham’s iconic solo Lamentation. Created with generative AI and volumetric film, the piece is not a recreation, but a response—a contemporary performance shaped by the living bodies who have stretched, trembled, and breathed inside her purple tube. Ying joins a moderated discussion and excerpts are performed.

This Works & Process commission has received Works & Process Residencies at Onassis ONX and PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance (2025).

Program Credits

Created and Choreographed by Xin Ying

Performers Janet Eilber Lloyd Knight Amanda Moreira Jai Perez

Music Lloyd Knight solo: Myles Potters Duet: Bárbara Moreira

Media & Creative Technology Media and Lighting Design: Timothy Kelly Volumetric Media: Alan Winslow Real-time Interactive Video Installation: David Wallace Haskins, Time Mirror V costume design: YuChang Xiao

Inspired by Lamentation (1930) by Martha Graham