Born in Shanghai, China, Xia Jun graduated from the Shanghai Dance School in 2012, worked with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in New York and was a finalist atthe prestigious Prix de Lausanne competition in Switzerland that same year. He joined Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) in 2013. He won Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer at the 2018 Hong Kong Dance Awards for his role as Lankendemin Anna-Marie Holmes’ Le Corsaire which he has performed during the time with HKB.
Xia joined Finnish National Ballet (FNB) in 2019 and now he is the Principal Dancer of FNB. He has danced Princein Wayne Eagling and Toer van Schayk’s The Nutcracker and The Mouse King, David McAllister’s Swan Lake and Javier Torres’ The Sleeping Beauty, Conrad and Lankendemin Holmes’ Le Corsaire, Solor in Natatlia Makarova’s La Bayadère, Don José in Liam Scarlett’s Carmen, Crassus in Lucas Jervies’ Spartacus, Classic Pas de Deux in Alexander Ekman’s Cow and performed in Wayne McGregor’s Infra and George Balanchine’s Serenade.