Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Pramila Vasudevan Season 2 Episode 22

Pramila Vasudevan is a cultural worker, choreographer and
trans disciplinary artist. She is the founding Artistic Director
of Aniccha Arts (since 2004), an experimental arts collaborative
producing site-specific performances that examine agency, voice,
and group dynamics within community histories, institutions, and
systems. This is her fifth year as director of Naked Stages at
Pillsbury House Theatre, a 7 month program for early career
performance artists. The pandemic has had devastating
consequences for artist communities and she is currently
researching what it means to build self sustaining artist
ecologies that are not dependent on traditional funding models.


Pramila is on a personal journey to examine her caste privilege
in her body, artistic, spiritual and daily life, as she searches
for paths to be in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter
movement. She was born in the US, lived in India and has been
studying, living, and working on stolen Dakota land for about 25
years. During the pandemic Pramila and her family have been
taking walks to the Bdote - a place of genesis, regeneration and
beauty, close to Fort Snelling which is a site of genocide of the
Dakota people. She is committed to continue learning about the
history of her Tamil ancestry as well as where she lives and
works and further building relationships with members of
indigenous communities here and learning about her neighborhood
and this land.