ABSTRACT
When the well-known American theater director, choreographer, performer, and video and installation artist Ping Chong created the fi rst performance of the ongoing series Undesirable Elements/Secret History in 1992, he realized that the idea he had had one year before had fi nally taken shape.1 In 1991, while teaching in Holland, he was fascinated by the diversity of languages and national and cultural origins among his students. Despite their diversity, however, there was something all of them shared. He therefore thought that he should do a new piece wherein the sound of different languages would be perceived as music.
