Padmini Chettur
Padmini Chettur is a contemporary Indian dancer trained by Chandralekha. She runs her own dance company based in Chennai (Madras), India. Biography: Padmini Chettur was born in 1970 and began her training in the traditional Indian dance-style Bharata Natyam as a child. In 1991 she joined the dance company run by Chandralekha, India’s most famous choreographer, and worked with it for nine years before presenting her first solo work ‘Wings and Masks’ (1999). This was followed by ‘Brown' and the duet 'Unsung’, ‘Fragility’ (2001) and ‘Solo’ (2003) in three sections. She has been artist in residence in England and the Netherlands and elsewhere.
Works: Paperdoll (Production / Performance, 2005) Solo (Production / Performance, 2003) Fragility (Production / Performance, 2001) Unsung (Production / Performance, 1999) Brown (Production / Performance, 1999) Wings and Masks (Production / Performance, 1999)