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Talvin Wilks, Nile Harris, Sara Zatz, and Jane Jung.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK CITY:<\/strong> Ping Chong and Company<\/a> has appointed artists Nile Harris and Talvin Wilks to affix managing director Jane Jung and affiliate director Sara Zatz on the inventive management staff as of Feb. 1. The staff will steward the corporate by way of a three-year transition<\/a> following the latest retirements of founder and inventive director Ping Chong and his longtime skilled companion, government director Bruce Allardice. Under this new collaborative management mannequin, the inventive management staff will work collectively to develop and understand a imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the group that helps a brand new era of interdisciplinary artists.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know what exactly the future will bring,\u201d stated Zatz in an announcement, \u201cbut I know we\u00a0will continue\u00a0to build and foster a holistic organization that is a truly welcoming home for artists\u2014one that creates room for growth, risk, learning, and evolution.\u00a0Talvin, Nile, Jane, and I\u00a0will challenge and balance each other while asking, together, what stories need\u00a0to be\u00a0told, and imagining how we will make space for\u00a0those stories in innovative new ways\u00a0that\u00a0evoke and honor Ping\u2019s legacy while forging new paths forward.\u00a0I feel grateful, hopeful, and honored to be part of this group, and to have Bruce and Ping\u2019s blessing as we move, with thought, care, and intention, in new and unknown directions.\u201d<\/p>\n This new mannequin offers two artists who’ve deep connections to the corporate with integral roles to innovate alongside current firm management. Talvin Wilks has been a longtime collaborator of Ping Chong and Company since 1994. Wilks\u00a0is a\u00a0playwright, director, and dramaturg primarily based in Minneapolis and New York City. He has served as a co-writer\/co-director\/dramaturg for Ping Chong and Company\u2019s ongoing\u00a0Undesirable Elements\u00a0<\/em>sequence and 4 productions of\u00a0Collidescope: Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America<\/em>. In 2022, Wilks directed the world premiere productions of\u00a0Parks<\/em>\u00a0by Harrison David Rivers, Cannabis: A Viper Vaudeville<\/em>\u00a0by Baba Israel, Grace Galu, and Soul Unscribed, and the three-play saga\u00a0The Till Trilogy<\/em>\u00a0by Ifa Bayeza. He additionally served as dramaturg for Camille A. Brown\u2019s Broadway Revival of\u00a0for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide\/when the rainbow is enuf<\/em>\u00a0and for the world premiere of\u00a0Dreaming Zenzile<\/em>\u00a0by Somi at New York Theatre Workshop\/National Black Theatre. Wilks is an Associate Professor within the Theatre Arts and Dance Department, University of Minnesota\/Twin Cities and is a 2020 McKnight Theater Artist Fellow and 2022 McKnight Presidential Fellow.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cPing Chong and Company has been a place for discovery, mentoring, and expanded artistry for me since 1994, when I first worked with Ping on\u00a0Undesirable Elements: Seattle<\/em>,\u201d stated Wilks in an announcement. \u201cI have grown and evolved and become a better artist\u2014more visionary and more expansive\u2014because of the opportunities provided by the company. Over a 50-year history, Ping and his many collaborators have built an incredible legacy that I\u2019m excited to advance for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n Nile Harris was the recipient of a 2022 PCC Creative Fellowship, by way of which he was in residence with the corporate, participating with the PCC archive and creating new work. Harris\u00a0levels meditated confrontations between performer and viewers that collage varied modes of communication: choreography, reappropriated and scripted textual content, improvisation, spatial design, and clowning. His work has been introduced on the Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Center, New York Live Arts, Volksb\u00fchne Berlin, Prelude Festival, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Otion Front Studio, Grace Exhibition Space, and Movement Research at Judson Church. As a performer, Harris has originated roles in works by Crackhead Barney, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Tina Satter, Robert Wilson, Young Boy Dancing Group, Nia Witherspoon, slowdanger, Lilleth Glimcher, Malcolm-x Betts, and Miles Greenberg. He is at present in rehearsals for the world premiere of Agnes Borinsky\u2019s\u00a0The Trees<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I look back on Ping\u2019s singular 50-year career and Ping Chong and Company\u2019s vast history,\u201d stated Harris in an announcement, \u201cI marvel at the depth of collaboration they have sustained among artists and cultural institutions worldwide. As we all navigate our way out of a treacherous past few years, the company is uniquely positioned to meet the moment by modeling new methods and systems that prioritize interdependence among artists and cultural institutions alike. Collaboration, which has always been a central tenet of this organization\u2019s work, is essential to a sustainable future for the downtown New York creative community.\u201d<\/p>\n Jane Jung and Sara Zatz will retain their present managerial, administrative, and inventive roles, along with taking over new tasks. Christina Bixland\u00a0will proceed to guide the corporate\u2019s education schemes.<\/p>\n