“Mr. Wong brought everything to his art and believed art could bring an expansive sense of meaning in return. His dances incorporated water, stones, petrified wood, language, spirituality and his own skill with yo-yos, honed to championship levels as a Chinese American boy growing up in Oakland.
“A member of the fabled Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1968 to 1972, he also was an avid painter, sculptor and ceramicist throughout his life. ‘He used dancers as if they were colors on a canvas,’ said his wife and fellow dancer, Connie Kreemer. ‘I know it sounds like a cliche, but his work really was all about the oneness of the universe.’ ”
–Steven Winn, SF Gate, July 23, 2003
Photo courtesy of Connie Kreemer