Aditi Venkateshwaran

Aditi Venkateshwaran is a contemporary performer— an actor, dancer and a choreographer with a keen interest in storytelling, writing and travel. Trained in the Indian Classical dance form of Kathak as well as Hindustani Classical music, Aditi has worked in the performing arts field since she was a child. She directed her first full-length dance theatre production — In Transit (2017), followed by Fall Again | Fly Better (2020), a one-woman show, which toured to various festivals around India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Europe. Her recent work, Constant Acts of Disobeying (2021), is an investigation into the feminist movement and the mandates of gender and sexuality.

She received the Pandit D.V Paluskar Award for Kathak by the Sharda Sangeet Academy, Mumbai, as well as the Rangasetu Fellowship by the Maharashtra Cultural Centre, Pune. Aditi’s work traverses the traditional and the contemporary and shows an inclination towards discovering an interdisciplinary approach to performance practices in her country. She looks at people around her for inspiration and is deeply interested in the stories they have to share.

Aditi is a recipient of the Tan Chay Bing Education Fund Scholarship and a beneficiary of the Möbius Fund, a revolving loan fund for actor-students.

Last updated: 28 November 2025