Who is she?
Veda Rouze
(vay-duh rowz)
she/her
NJ/PHL
Veda is a theater maker, actor, director, spectator, and occasional hula-hooper.
She is committed to experimenting and unlearning, and is often drawn into the worlds of devised, site-specific, and DIY theater.
Veda's work repeatedly gravitates toward bridging the quotidian with the extraordinary—seeking to challenge the boundaries of solo and ensemble performance by breaking barriers between spectator and actor through space, movement, objects, sound, and clown.
Also, she is very queer and makes very queer art.
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(Veda would like you to know that she has recently cut her long hair to free herself from the confines of the heteronormative patriarchy and has not had a chance to take new headshots because nevertheless her art and non-art are always works in progress.)
Recent Work
Water Street Art House
Clothesline Theatre
Jugs
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
The Wooster Group
Educational Theatre Association
Selected Training
Ren Gyo Soh/ Butoh and Movement Training Course
Earthdance/ Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium
Pig Iron School of Theatre/ Something From Nothing
Suzuki Company of Toga & SITI/ Symposium with Tadashi Suzuki
Double Edge Theatre/ Fall Immersion
SITI Company/ Skidmore Summer Workshop
Ongoing Interests
aloeplants/
butoh/existentialism/clown/
learning/unlearning/
dismantlingtheheteronormativepatriarchy/
imaginarystrings/movementscores/
activism/lavalamps
boxes/forests/trafficcones
tinyobjects/barbies
intersectionality/
Present Questions
What informs and defines touch?
Does the spectator precede the actor?
How do we play?
And what the fuck?
(No really... what the literal fuck?!)
CV/Resume with full work and training available upon request.