Ginny Jiang was born and raised in Meicheng Town (Hangzhou) and Ningbo City in China. She is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, choreographer, filmmaker, and dancer. Her work critically examines representations of gender, race, and oppression in performance and media, employing both metaphor and subversion. She examines how choreographic structures, strategies, and processes may be obscured or revealed as modes of cultural production. Ginny’s research draws on feminist studies, corporeal politics, and critical dance theories to explore how collective action and embodied movements intervene in and challenge social normalcy. Her upcoming residencies include MaiOui Danse Arts D5 (Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette, France) in May 2025 and Mothers’ Milk (Newton, Kansas) in July 2025.

Ginny has created dance performances, improvisation, films, materials art performance and workshops that commissioned by organizations such as the Maioui Danse, San Francisco Symphony, Dance Uprising, Spurs Gallery, CHOI Center & Cloud House, The Guardian Arts Center, Yinhe Dance, Peking University, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Asian Association of Culture Commerce and Education in Europe, Wuzhen Theatre Festival, No More Play dance company.

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Ginny notable work, "Tides," has been featured at lots of galleries, conferences and art festivals both nationally and internationally included Dance Studies Association 2024 conference（Argentina, SA), American College Dance Association Screen Dance Gala 2023, Indie Short Festival- Best Screen Dance Short (CA, USA), Florence Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition (Europe), Utah International Film Festival- Nominee (USA), London Temporal Collision(UK), Shanghai Dance Festival (Shanghai,CN), Art week ltalia di Santa Maria Del Fiore (Italy, Europe), Big Syn International Film Festival- Winner (London,UK), Video Art and Experimental Film- Nominee (NY,USA), Montreal Women Film Festival- Nominee&Winner (CA), Sohu Short Film Award Ceremony (Beijing, CN), Art Power Exhibition (Xiamen, CN), InShadow-Lisbon Screen dance Festival (Europe), Dance@30 FPS (Ohio,USA), Morocco Shorts(NA).

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Jiang’s awards and performances include 798 Gallery Week (Beijing, CN, 2023), 5th International Dance and Arts Competition (South Korea, 2022), Guangdong Modern Dance Week (Guangdong, CN, 2022), Wuzhen Theatre Festival (Jiaxing, CN, 2021), Beijing 24th Student Arts Festival (Beijing, CN, 2020), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland, UK, 2019), Taiwan Huagang Arts Festival, 33rd Korea Dance Festival (South Korea, 2019), Asian International Culture & Arts Forum (Beijing, CN, 2019), Beijing Dance Competition (Beijing, CN, 2019), Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center (Beijing, CN, 2019), Jackson Dance Lab (Tufts University, 2018), Nigh University Center, Sadler Commonwealth (The College of William and Mary, 2018), Jingshi Art Gallery (Beijing, CN, 2018), China Youth Arts Festival (Beijing, CN).

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Her press coverage includes features in Xinhua Net, China Reform Daily, Qilu Evening News, Artist Weekly, Art China, Beijing Daily Group, The Chicago Journal, ISOLART GALLERY, EveryArt, Indie Short Fest, VIDEOART.NET, and BIG SYN INSTITUTE.

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Ginny is currently a graduate student instructor in Dance at University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Jiang teaches courses in modern dance, contemporary dance, floor-work, improvisation, dance composition, classical ballet, Chinese folk dance, Chinese classical dance. Ginny received a BFA in Dance with a minor in sociology at Beijing Normal University where Jiang recommended for a MFA Program with waived entrance exam and first-class Scholarship. She also studied as an exchange student at National High Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon. 

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