UNDESIRABLE ELEMENTS HANOVER:

PING CHONG

Ping Chong is a theater director, choreographer, video and installation artist. He was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in New York City's Chinatown. He is the recipient of an Obie Award, six NEA Fellowships, a Playwrights USA Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 1992 New York Theatre and Dance "Bessie" Award for Sustained Achievement. His work has been presented at major museums, festivals and theater through the Americas, Europe and Asia, and have included The Games (with Meredith Monk), Angels of Swedenborg, Elephant Memories, Nosferatu, and After Sorrow. In 1990, Chong began to create a series of works exploring East-West relations past, present, and future, with Deshima (Japan), Chinoiserie China), After Sorrow (Viet Nam); his series of community residency-based documentary theater explorations of immigrants, Undesireable Elements, have been created and performed in Rotterdam, New Jersey, New York, Minnesota, Ohio, Washington, and Japan.

Places to go from here:

  • CLICK HERE for background information on the development of this project.
  • CLICK HERE for a brief biography of Ping Chong.
  • CLICK HERE to read excerpts from the stories of our local participants.
  • CLICK HERE to submit your own story!
  • CLICK HERE for complete information about the performance event at the Hopkins Center.
Presented by the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, and additional funding from Dartmouth’s Tucker Foundation.