PERFORMANCE

Ping Chong & Company: All Islands Connect Underwater: A Celebration of Ping Chong and Bruce Allardice

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2023
6:00 PM

The Chelsea Factory
547 West 26th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

$10-$45
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A celebratory cocktail party with ambient performances: just the kind of thing this List avoids. But even putting aside the sensible pricing, this particular celebration celebrates the retiring Ping Chong, a crucial artist for this List. Chong didn’t invent the non-narrative, imagistic, tech-savvy but never slick type of theater we advocate around here — but he sure perfected it (some 50 years ago), and became an exemplar. Anyway, among the Chong collaborators providing the ambient performances is . . . Merideth Monk!

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