[1][2][3] Padmini Chettur was born in 1970 and began her training in the Indian classical dance-styles Bharata Natyam as a child.
Her production, ‘Pushed’ premiered at Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) 2006,[8] and travelled to Brussels, Holland, Salzburg, Paris and Lisbon.
‘Wall Dancing’[9] 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.
While working with 'Wall Dancing', she created ‘Kolam’ in association with French choreographer David Rolland as part of his production.
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 Basement 21.