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Tickets on Sale > July 13th!

Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026

Jinki Cambronero

Body Story

Dance


Xin Ji


Venue
The Theatre Centre Franco Boni Theatre


FRI AUG 14, 6:00 PM

SAT AUG 15, 5:00 PM

SUN AUG 17, 1:00 PM


50 Minutes


Ticket Price
$20 / $35 / $50

Jinki Cambronero

“Raw, stunning, deeply moving. A beautifully executed work” — Annie Pokel”

When was the last time your body felt happy? When did it feel the most tense? How many injuries has your body sustained? When do you push it to its limits?

The successful body. The authoritarian body. The sweaty body. The becoming body. The complete body. The eternal body. The digital body. The ancestral body. The hidden body.

What does your body remember?

In this debut solo work by dance artist Xin Ji, the story of his body unravels through moments where the emotional and physical collide. An incredible display of absolute control and breathtaking virtuosity, discover how a body carries memory, pain, emotion, and history without us always realising. Uncertainty, recklessness and euphoria slide into this intimate personal narrative — offering ways to consider our bodies as vehicles for resistance and alchemy.

Choreographer and Performer: Xin Ji
Sound Design: Alistair Deverick
Dramaturg: Nathan Joe
Costume Design: Steven Junil Park 박준일
Set Design: Talia Pua
AV Design: Qianye 林千葉 and Qianhe Lin 林千和
Lighting Design: Rowan Pierce
Production Manager: Emmanuel Reynaud
Operator: Jazmin Whittall
Producer: Rosabel Tan
Assistant Producer (debut season): Pennie Chang


This presentation of Body Story is generously supported with funding from Creative New Zealand.


Advisories

Sensory: Live music with partial nudity, use of haze and bright lights.
Content Advisories for this project are available here. This link will open to a new webpage that lists Content Advisories for ALL SummerWorks 2026 projects. Please take care as you review this list.


SummerWorks Performance Festival
August 6-16, 2026
Tickets on Sale > July 13th!

This year’s Festival theme, Fight | Flight brings forward urgent creative responses to this troubling moment in time. Across the 2026 Festival, artists root themselves in place, community, ancestry, and practice, while also shifting perspectives, rewriting histories, and creating new narratives through the body, exploring memory, consent, transformation, and identity, through resistance, humour, and intimacy.


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