Born and raised in El Paso Texas, Ximena began her ballet training at the age of 13 with the El Paso Ballet Theater. While training there she had the opportunity to perform with the company in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Cinderella, and Giselle. In 2015 Ximena relocated to Florida to begin her intensive pre-professional training with Magaly Suarez at The Art of Classical Ballet, as well as being accepted into Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts where she graduated in 2016 as a Dance Major. In 2018 Ximena was offered a position with the second company at Orlando Ballet under the direction of Robert Hill. During her time with Orlando Ballet, Ximena performed with the company in many productions such as Robert Hill’s Carmina Burana, Bolero, The Nutcracker, Arcadian Broad’s “Seasons”, and Victoria Morgan’s Cinderella. Ximena joined Minnesota Ballet in 2020 and was featured as “Dew Drop” in Karl von Rabenau’s Nutcracker Suite: A Duluth Tale, and in Paul Taylor’s Dream Solo from Company B, and stared as Katrina Van Tassel in the world premiere of Karl von Rabenau’s Sleepy Hollow.