The Rigorous Practice of Freedom

The Rigorous Practice of Freedom

  • 26 Feb
    27 Feb
    2019

    Creative Processes

    Padmini Chettur

The Rigorous Practice of Freedom

The ‘performative’ has been redefined at several moments within the history of the form and content of contemporary dance. For choreographers and dance practitionsers, these shifts have followed a trajectory of personal research on the body or have reflected political concerns with the nature of entertainment, but there has often been a tension between performance and its viewership. Through a series of excerpts from her repertory and a response to 'misreadings' of her work, Padmini Chettur looks at the relationship between the body, her choreography, as well as her dance practice.

Duration -

February 26, 27, 2019

Timing: 6:30 pm

Fees

Rs. 2,000

Registrations Closed

Padmini Chettur

Padmini Chettur

Padmini Chettur began her contemporary dance career in 1990 with Chandralekha, the radical modernist, Bharatanatyam choreographer whose oeuvre deconstructed the form of Bharatanatyam. Breaking away from Chandralekha’s work in 2001, Padmini’s practice shifted the choreographic tradition to a minimal language that has visually translated concepts of time and space as they relate to contemporary experience. Deriving vocabularies from phenomenology, cultural studies, insect movements, astronomy, physiotherapy, and sport, she has created a taut visual language that exits the narrow bounds of the stage. During her career as a choreographer, spanning two decades, she collaborated with sculptors, light artists, filmmakers, and sound-artists. Her approach to movement research is scientific in rigueur. From Wings and Masks (1993) throughout her oeuvre, Padmini has been concerned with refining form through experiments with the body.