SERVANT OF THE WIND is a dynamic investigation of psycho-physical presence and embodied memory using storytelling styles from the United States and India. Inspired by time Annalisa spent in southern India studying kalaripayattu, an ancient Indian martial art that was almost destroyed during the British occupation, SERVANT examines cycles of memory and the passing on of history and tradition. SERVANT is at once a re-imagining of The Ramayana (an ancient Indian epic of love and war), a personal meditation on physical and emotional healing, and an excavation of colonial histories encoded on the bodies of members of the Indian diaspora.