Padmini Chettur
Stilling
A video installation
Stilling
A video installation
Choreography and dance: Padmini Chettur
Sound: Maarten Visser
Direction and film: Madhavan Palanisamy
To the left or to the right? Clockwise or anti-clockwise? What is it to reverse movement, hold tension as a function that is gritty and full of life?
A choreographic conversation between twelve fragmented oscillations, Stilling is a meditation on the technicalities of rotation. A landscape of partly repetitive actions draws attention to the spatial and temporal relationships in between: harmonies and disharmonies, the individual within the collective, a palette of chaos within which forms slowly emerge. In an age of growing disembodiment, Stilling is a reminder of the necessary irregularities of humanity. A non-dualistic grid of movements that appear irreconcilable can bring us to a moment of poised stillness—not the hard stop that signals the end, but one that signifies the possibility of a beginning again.
The installation also includes her work Chalking for the first time in India.
Chalking, Performance and 4 channel video installation
Direction and film: Madhavan Palanisamy
To the left or to the right? Clockwise or anti-clockwise? What is it to reverse movement, hold tension as a function that is gritty and full of life?
A choreographic conversation between twelve fragmented oscillations, Stilling is a meditation on the technicalities of rotation. A landscape of partly repetitive actions draws attention to the spatial and temporal relationships in between: harmonies and disharmonies, the individual within the collective, a palette of chaos within which forms slowly emerge. In an age of growing disembodiment, Stilling is a reminder of the necessary irregularities of humanity. A non-dualistic grid of movements that appear irreconcilable can bring us to a moment of poised stillness—not the hard stop that signals the end, but one that signifies the possibility of a beginning again.
The installation also includes her work Chalking for the first time in India.
Chalking, Performance and 4 channel video installation
Choreography: Padmini Chettur; Sound: Maarten Visser; Dancers: Atri Nandy, Brandy Leary, Nithya Garg, Robert Kingsbury, Tanveer Alam; Rehearsal Assistant: Harikishan S. Nair; Photography: Greg Wong; Production: Anandam Dance Theatre.
Padmini Chettur
Philosophical Enactment 1
A solo contemporary dance performance
Feb 19 & 20, 2025 | 6:30 pm | Ticketed
Performance at Experimenter is the India premiere
Philosophical Enactment 1
A solo contemporary dance performance
Feb 19 & 20, 2025 | 6:30 pm | Ticketed
Performance at Experimenter is the India premiere
Choreography and dance: Padmini Chettur
Music: Maarten Visser
Text and voice: Aveek Sen
Thanks to Anandam Dance Theatre
Set to a sound score by Maarten Visser, that proposes gentle shifts in temporality, Philosophical Enactment 1 plays with a ceaseless motorical imagination of the body’s capacity to expand and retreat. Sound and text are layered to ‘describe’ movement, and at times are described by movement. Weaving textual images both literal and propositional allowing the audience to find multiple entry points and perspectives. Philosophical Enactment 1 is a dancer and writer in search of form. An articulation of inarticulable, a questioning of the very question: “What does it mean?”
Padmini Chettur is in Kolkata for Holding Space: Pickle Factory Season 5.