Kuchipudi dance is a classical dance form from andhra pradesh, a state of south india. Kuchipudi is the name of a small village in the divi taluq of krishna district that borders the bay of bengal and with resident brahmins practising this traditional dance form, it acquired the present name.
Withthe dance form attaining perfection by the time of golconda king Abdul Hassan Tanesha, Kuchipudi brahmins are said to have received 600 acres (2.4 km²) of land as an endowment from Tanesha for the great presentation before him.
Siddhendra yogi is said to be the first scholar to give it the current form of dance drama.Bhamakalapam is one of his celebrated compositions.He also reserverd the art to males by teaching it to young brahmin boys of the village. However in modern times,the art has been dominated by women
The performence usually begins with some stage rite,after which each of the character comes on to the stage and introduce him/herself with a daru(a small composition of both song and dance)to introduce the identity, set the mood, of the character in the drama. The drama then begins. The dance is accompanied by song which is typically carnatic music. The singer is accompanied bymridangam (a classical south india percussion instrument), vilon, flute and the tambura.Ornaments worn by artists are generally made by light weight wood called boorugu
Some of the well known people in this tradition are DR.vempati chinna satyam,Vendantham lakshminarayana,DR.uma rama rao,Chinta krishana murthy,Vendantam satyanarayana sharma,Shobha naidu,Raja reddy and Radha reddy
The prominence of kuchipudi dance form is not limited to India alone. There are now a number of popular Kuchipudi teachers, choreographers and dancers in North America. Some of them include Nilimma Devi ,Sasikala Penumarthi and Revathi Komanduri in Atlanta, Kamala Reddy in Pittsburgh ,Ratna Papa in Texas, Vaidehi Yellai, Himabindu Challa, Madhuri Kishore,and sunitha Pendekanti in the San FranciscoBay Area, Sandhya Sree Atmakuri in Detroit, Divya Yeluriand Chandrika Ramprasad Yamijala in New York/New Jersey, MallikaRamaprasad, Mrinalini Sadananda, Lakshmi Babu, Anuradha Nehru and Mutnuri Yagna in Washington DC.
6 comments:
that last pic of dancer is nice like u. i liked it of all
u did well but still u can do and all the best
hi
each and every dance teacher over in your blog are good. except one.
mutnuri yagna. please remove him from the list. he is not a good dancer nor a good person.
i am humbly requesting u to remove the name of mutnuri yagna from your list.
I cant believe any one listing Lakshmi Baabu as a kuchipudi dance teacher, Is this some kind of deliberate attempt to tarnish Indian Classical dance?. Offcourse she run some kind of joint from her basement and make a living using Shobha Naidu's name that she claims to be a student. She is nothing but aan arogant person who knows nothing about Indian classical dance.
ok thanq i will remove them...
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