Padmini Chettur was born in 1970. She began her training in the traditional Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam. In 1990, she joined the company of Chandralekha; to date the most important Indian artist to contemporize dance in India. During the ten years spent working with Chandralekha, Chettur began her own study and research of the body’s geometry and its relationship with space. The politic of developing a contemporary dance idiom from within Indian physical forms, rather than by a study of western ones continues in her work. She has performed with her company at Theatre de la Ville (Paris), Springdance (Utrecht), Kunsten festival des Arts (Brussels), Bozar (Brussels), Seoul Performing Arts Festival, National School of Drama Festival (New Delhi).
Performance: Untitled – creation 2013 – performed by Anoushka Kurien, P. Akila, V. Aarabi, Aditi Sharad and Pazhani.
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