Xin Dong Revolutionizes Circus Trapeze with New Rotational Control Method

Every discipline within the performing arts has a moment when a practitioner stops inheriting tradition and starts building something new. For Xin Dong, a principal aerial trapeze performer and coach with over two decades of professional experience, that moment came not on a stage but in a training room, where he began dismantling the assumptions that had long governed how high-speed aerial rotation was taught.

_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Gold-Prize-Champion-Xin-Dong-on-How-His-Revolutionary-Rotational-Control-Method-Is-Changing-Circus-Performance-20260501)._