{"id":665,"date":"2010-07-11T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=665"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T04:01:13","slug":"finally-a-homecoming-for-ping-chongs-cathay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Homecoming for Ping Chong&#8217;s &#8220;Cathay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Cathy Barbash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ping Chong&#8217;s <em>Cathay: Three Tales of China<\/em> will finally premiere in China in late October 2010. Almost five years ago, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts&#8217; month-long Festival of China commissioned Ping Chong to set a new work on the Shaanxi Folk Art Theatre&#8217;s puppetry troupe. Ping Chong worked with the company in Xi&#8217;an, and <em>Cathay<\/em> was assembled and premiered at the Seattle Rep before playing at the Festival, the New Victory Theatre in New York and at the Vienna Festival.<\/p>\n<p>I knew the company from my work as consultant to the Kennedy Center for the Festival, and went on Ping Chong &amp; Company&#8217;s board to help them try to &#8220;repatriate&#8221; the work. Ping Chong wanted to see the work performed in China, and wanted to give the production to his Xi&#8217;an colleagues as a legacy. Only now have the infrastructure and priorities of China&#8217;s culture industry evolved enough to make this a reality. The China premiere, fittingly, will be held in Xi&#8217;an, and it is hoped that it can develop into a long run that will create a steady income stream for the company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=665\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Cathy Barbash Ping Chong&#8217;s Cathay: Three Tales of China will finally premiere in China in late October 2010. Almost five years ago, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts&#8217; month-long Festival of China commissioned Ping Chong to set a new work on the Shaanxi Folk Art Theatre&#8217;s puppetry troupe. Ping Chong worked with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2745,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/2745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}