Veda RouZE

vay—duh        rowwz

she/hers

​Veda is a New Jersey and New York based theatre-maker, director, actor, spectator, and occasional hula-hooper. She is a theatre artist who finds herself drawn into the worlds of experimental, devised, site-specific, and physical theatre. Her work repeatedly gravitates toward the exploration of human existence (wondrously imaginative yet utterly mundane), and seeks to challenge the boundaries of solo and ensemble performance through space, rhythm, movement, sound, and clown.

STATEMENT

“My mission is to continually define and question the relationship that the actor has to the spectator. I am presently intrigued by the intersection of actors and non-actors, and the juxtaposition of objects and artists. My curiosity is fueled by a desire to understand how movement of the body can create a conversation of the unknown.”

CURRENT WORK

Clothesline Theatre/ Theatre-Maker

Jugs/ Devisor & Puppeteer

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club/ Intern

The Wooster Group​/ Intern

Educational Theatre Association/ NJ Junior Thespian Coordinator

RECENT training

Resonant Bodies/ Jordan Rosin and Yokko

Earthdance/ Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium

Pig Iron School of Theatre/Something From Nothing

SCOT & SITI/ Symposium with Tadashi Suzuki

Double Edge Theatre/Fall Immersion

SITI Company/Skidmore Summer Workshop

SITI Company/Speech & Composition

fLUCTUATING interests

sunshine/

butoh/qigong/noguchitaiso

ballsandotherroundobjects/

puppetsasactors&actorsaspuppets/

imaginarystrings/movementscores/

observingrhythminallordinaryandunordinaryplaces/

contactimprov/solocontact/sixviewpoints/

existentialism/clown/

toytheatre/takeawayshows/

proprioception

present Questions 

What informs and defines touch?

Does the spectator precede the actor?

How do we play?

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