Current and Upcoming Productions

 is co-commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and Ping Chong and Company, with funding from Abrons Arts Center’s Performance AIRspace Residency which is supported by the Jerome Foundation. Additionally, this work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by the Jerome Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

is a recipient of the 2022 MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.

Co-Commissioned by Ping Chong and Company and Abrons Arts Center

 Nile Harris (Artistic Leadership Team Member) sets an improvised happening inside of a sound responsive inflatable bounce castle. Using a network of microphones and sonic feedback as a malleable material, the voices of Harris and the ensemble are recorded and mixed live to create a musical composition that uniquely transforms for every performance.

this house is not a home

Undesirable Elements: Ukraine is made possible by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mellon Foundation, Cathy Barbash, the Self Reliance Foundation, and the friends of Yara Arts Group

Co-produced with Yara Arts

 and explores the experiences of Ukrainian American New Yorkers: Ukrainian identity, immigration, intergenerational connections, the history of Ukrainians in the U.S., and the disastrous effect of Russia’s war on Ukraine. 

This project ​​is the result of a three-decade relationship between Ping Chong and Virlana Tkacz, who first worked together in the early 1990s, when Ping first created the series. Last year, Ping invited Virlana to collaborate on a new production about the experiences of Ukrainian Americans. She identified the people who form the cast, and whose stories comprise the script.

 features Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American performers, musicians, and activists: George Drance, whose grandparents arrived in New York before World War I; Julian Kytasty, whose father arrived with his bandura-playing family after World War II; Lesya Verba, who arrived in New York from Odesa just two years ago; Nariman Asanov, a Crimean Tatar who came to U.S. in the 1990s; and Daria Kolomiec, who was in Kyiv for Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The production interweaves their personal stories and Ukrainian history with traditional Ukrainian music and songs.

Performances will take place May 5-14 at the Ukrainian Museum, located at 222 East 6th Street, New York.

Undesirable Elements: Ukraine

Screening at the Asia Society on May 24

 is an hour-long digital film, inspired by Ping Chong Chong’s earlier theatrical work, 

, part of a series known as The East/West Quartet. Like the original work, 

 connects the present day and the personal with an historical past still being felt today. The film’s narrative weaves personal reflections, music and song, with historical strands, such as the opium war, the building of the railroads across the USA, the murder of Vincent Chin, and the mythical birth of tea, among other things.