Stories by Hand

"Witty...mythically tragic...deeply absorbing." —The New York Times

Stories by Hand is a solo work by award-winning choreographer and performer, Preeti Vasudevan, searching for an individual identity through stories that are personal, mythical, and social and are narrated through the continuous placement and displacement of gestures affected by memory. Stories by Hand takes the hand gestures of Bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance) as the basis for a storytelling dance-theater interweaving east and west, past and present, the mythic and the everyday.

Creative Team

Co-Creator, Choreographer, and Performer: Preeti Vasudevan

Co-Creator and Literary Dramaturg: Paul Kaiser

Production Design: Robert Wierzel

Music & Sound Design: Paul Jacob