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Mission Statement
Ping Chong and Company creates works of theater and art that reveal beauty, invention, precision, and a commitment to social justice. Founded by Ping Chong, the company creates original interdisciplinary works by a group of affiliated artists and is committed to artistic innovation, collaboration community engagement, and amplifying underrepresented voices.
About This Cause
Ping Chong and Company (PCC) creates theater and art that reveal beauty, invention, precision, and a commitment to social justice. Founded in New York City in 1975 by leading theatrical innovator and National Medal of Arts recipient Ping Chong, the company engages multigenerational and interdisciplinary artists to build on, and expand, Ping Chong’s singular and visionary body of work. The company’s work is centered on innovation, collaboration, and community engagement. Artistic Director Ping Chong has explored and dismantled history, chronology, geography, race, and culture in his interdisciplinary works and the Undesirable Elements form. Across nearly five decades, the New York City-based company has created over 100 original theater productions, ranging from intimate interview-based works to large-scale multidisciplinary projects featuring puppets, performers, and full sound and projection scores. Reaching audiences throughout New York, the United States, and the world, PCC transcends boundaries, exploring interconnectedness of cultures and how multifaceted identities are addressed in society. The company’s work often seeks to excavate and question dominant historical narratives. PCC is holistically supportive of the needs of artists, committed to developing and producing work by artists of color, and highly adaptive in its partnerships—working in collaboration with schools, universities, regional theaters, international arts festivals, and grassroots social service organizations. PCC’s works have been performed in venues ranging from a barber shop to a YMCA to BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, La MaMa, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, the Barbican Centre, the Kennedy Center, Walker Art Center, Central Park Summerstage, Lincoln Center Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Toga Festival, the Vienna Festival, the Perth Festival, DMZ 2000 Festival, and many more. Undesirable Elements is one of PCC’s most enduring and far-reaching projects. It is an ever-expanding series of collaborative, interview-based theater works. It examines issues of place, culture, and identity in the lives of individuals in specific communities. As in many of PCC’s works, Undesirable Elements evokes personal histories’ vivid expression of their political and historical contexts. In recent decades the artist-driven company has, through various means, emphasized fostering, training, and supporting future generations of artists creating work within and outside the company. It has developed and produced ongoing training and education modules like annual training institutes and Secret Histories arts education program for K-12 students; continued Undesirable Elements; and recently launched a Creative Fellowship. Today, Ping Chong and Company is a highly adaptive and supportive home base for multigenerational, interdisciplinary artists with generative theater practices.