Hearsay takes sound and language into the body and pursues the soul of both the message and the messenger. By exploring call and response, follow the leader, self-reflection, social evolution, oral story, and the voice of a crowd, Hearsay playfully maps out a moving language of subtle and not-so-subtle social paradigms of the changing modes of communication.

Hearsay premiered at Dance New Amsterdam, NYC in 2008. It is an evening-length work, 67 minutes long, for 14 dancers.

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