Performance Art
After graduation, Tong then established a reputation in the Bay Area with a string of charismatic, left-field performance pieces such as "Wild Boys," "Eliminations," "Frankie and Johnnie" and the award-winning "Bound Feet," which was loosely based on traditional oriental puppet theatre "Frankie and Johnnie" appeared in the 1981 documentary Theater In Trance by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who shot the film at the "Theaters of the World" Festival in June 1981 in Cologne.
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