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{{Use Indian English|date=April 2018}}
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{{Infobox dancer
| name = Padmini Chettur
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| birth_date = 1970
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| occupation = dancer, choreographer
| years_active = 1989-present
| current_group = "Padmini Chettur Dance Company"
| website = 
[https://basement21.wordpress.com/category/dance-archive-b21/padmini-chettur/]
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'''Padmini Chettur''' (born 1970) is an [[India]]n [[contemporary dancer]], trained by dancer-choreographer [[Chandralekha (dancer)|Chandralekha]]. She runs her own dance company based in [[Chennai]], India, "Padmini Chettur Dance Company".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/11/22/stories/2008112251231200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107151056/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/11/22/stories/2008112251231200.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2012|title= Beyond boundaries |last=Swaminathan|first=Chitra|date=22 November 2008|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=13 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/01/22/stories/2010012250910600.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131100759/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2010/01/22/stories/2010012250910600.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 January 2010|title= Is collaboration the new age mantra? |last=Venkatraman|first=Leela|date=22 January 2010|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=13 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2001/11/26/stories/2001112600090300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031019132551/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2001/11/26/stories/2001112600090300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 October 2003|title= Celebrating the creative spirit |date=26 November 2001|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=13 February 2010}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Padmini Chettur was born in 1970 and began her training in the Indian classical dance-styles [[Bharata Natyam]] as a child. She graduated from [[Birla Institute of Technology and Science]] (BITS), [[Pilani]] in 1991.{{fact|date=August 2020}}

==Career==
Padmini presented her first contemporary experiment in 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Shea|first=Janet |title=At Home in the world: Bharata natyam on the Global stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CfA4uDwCKwC&pg=PA17&dq=PADMINI+CHETTUR&hl=en&ei=cJjsTLvRM8_JcdGS4IAP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=PADMINI%20CHETTUR&f=false|year=2007|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=0-8195-6837-6|page=17}}</ref>

In 1991 she joined the dance company run by Chandralekha and worked with it till 2001, performing in the productions ‘Lilavati,’ ‘Prana,’ ‘Angika,’ ‘Sri,’ ‘Bhinna Pravaha,’ ‘Yantra,’ ‘Mahakaal’ and ‘Sharira.’ <ref name="hi">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/11/22/stories/2008112253930900.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108104045/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/11/22/stories/2008112253930900.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 November 2012|title=Beyond boundaries|date=22 Nov 2008|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=24 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="te">{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main47.asp?filename=hub271110YOUINTHE.asp|title=You in the third row, wake up!|first=Poorva|last=Rajaram|date=27 November 2010|volume=7|issue=47|work=[[Tehelka]]|accessdate=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029024026/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main47.asp?filename=hub271110YOUINTHE.asp|archive-date=29 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Meanwhile, she presented her first solo work ‘Wings and Masks’ (1999). This was followed by ‘Brown', the duet 'Unsung’, ‘Fragility’ (2001) – a group production, and ‘Solo’ (2003) in three sections, and then came another group production ‘Paperdoll’. Her production, ‘Pushed’ premiered at Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.narthaki.com/info/rev07/rev422.html|title=Dance Review: Pushed – A unique Indo-Korean dance venture|date=27 December 2006|publisher=Nartaki}}</ref> and travelled to Brussels, Holland, Salzburg, Paris and Lisbon.<ref name="hi"/> ‘Beautiful Thing 1’ and ‘Beautiful Thing 2’ were created as a group and a solo work respectively – exploring the politics of beauty of the body and the space. These were performed extensively in India and abroad. ‘Wall Dancing’<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-arts/chen-dance/writing-on-the-wall/article4150499.ece|title=Writing on the wall|last=Swaminathan|first=Chitra|date=2012-11-30|newspaper=The Hindu|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X|access-date=2016-11-10}}</ref> came next as a group production with further explorations in that line – pushing the boundaries of the notion of dependency of bodies with one another as well that with the space. This was also her first non-proscenium work that travelled within India and to Vienna and Singapore. While working with 'Wall Dancing', she created ‘Kolam’ in association with French choreographer [http://www.david-rolland.com/ David Rolland] as part of his production. It is a dance piece created on a massive carpet with a [[Kolam]] designed on it. Padmini is currently working on a group piece exploring the notion of distance and longing by working with a [[Varnam]] in a contemporary way – relevant to current socio-cultural scenario.

She has been artist in residence in England, the Netherlands, Germany and elsewhere. She is also one of the co-founders (along with dancer-choreographer Preethi Athreya, musician-composer Maarten Visser and theater-director-actor Pravin Kannanur) of an artists' collective based in Chennai, India – known as [https://basement21.wordpress.com/ Basement 21].

==Works==
* ''Wings and Masks'' (Production / Performance, 1999)
*''Fragility'' (Production / Performance, 2001)
*''Solo'' (Production / Performance, 2003)
*''Paperdoll'' (Production / Performance, 2005)
* ''Pushed'' (Production / Performance, 2006)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74PtNFtXuY Pushed]</ref>
* ''Beautiful Thing 1'' (Production / Performance, 2009)
* ''Beautiful Thing 2'' (Production / Performance, 2011)
* ''Wall Dancing'' (Production / Performance, 2012)
* ''Kolam'' (In association with David Rolland) (Production / Performance, 2014)
* ''Varnam'' (Production / Performance, 2016)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160202194431/http://padminichettur.com/about.htm Official Website]
*[https://basement21.wordpress.com/category/dance-archive-b21/padmini-chettur/ Profile of Padmini Chettur in Basement 21]

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