Padmini Chettur began her contemporary dancer's career in 1990 as a member of the troupe of Chandralekha - the radical Bharatanatyam modernist choreographer, whose own opus dealt with a rigorous deconstruction of the form. Breaking away in 2001, Padmini has over the past two decades defined her own choreographic idiom - minimalist, abstract and formal - stripping movement down to an essential, anatomical investigation, prioritising a sense of tension over emotion. Her approach to dramaturgy reveals the complex layers of connection between a dancing body and it's environment; both in the sense of performative parameters, and in the sense of a subject socio-cultural context, one's place in history.