Pramila Vasudevan
Dance
St. Paul, MN
Pramila Vasudevan is the recipient of the McKnight Artist & Culture Bearer Fellowship.
Pramila Vasudevan is a Tamil movement-centered artist, cultural worker, and maker of community-rooted/routed transdisciplinary work. She is associate director of Red Eye Theater, a place that cultivates experimental performance and contemporary art-making. She was the founder and artistic director of Aniccha Arts (2004–2024), an arts collaborative producing site-specific performances that examine agency, voice, and group dynamics within community histories, institutions, and systems. She is an artist associate of Pillsbury House Theatre (since 2021). She has been honored with the McKnight Choreography Fellowship (2024, 2016), Joyce Award (2022), United States Artists (2022), and Guggenheim (2017). Vasudevan has been invested in cultivating art spaces and artist growth as the director of Naked Stages (2016–21) and national mentor (2024, 2025) at Pillsbury House Theatre. Her current practice involves gardening, hosting conversations and community gatherings, and developing improvisational movement sessions inspired by growing practices in gardens and greenhouses and by plant cycles.