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| | The Hindu : Dance as ritual and transformation |
 | | A self-taught dancer, with an individualistic style, Peter Chin's Modern Dance Involvement was a happenstance, when his professor, in the university where he was studying visual arts, told him, as part of the performance art course, "Do anything you want. |
 | | In music too, Chin's taste is eclectic embracing a whole range from Renaissance music, church music, tribal chants, Buddhist music with the typical sounds of gong, long pipe and cymbals, to an orchestration of insect sounds. |
 | | Peter Chin's latest challenge is directing a theatrical venture, a responsibility given to him by Canadian composer and writer Murray Schaffer. |
| www.hindu.com /thehindu/2000/12/31/stories/09310331.htm (925 words) |
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