Delhi - Heritage - DANCE

Delhi - Heritage - DANCE

Kuchipudi a dance form given to the Indian dance

platform by a small village in the Andhra Pradesh.

Kuchipudi is not mere a dance form but is combination of

dance, gestures, speech and song. A Kuchipudi dancer has

to to be well versed in dancing, acting, music, various

languages and texts. Kuchipudi was born in a small

village of Andhra Pradesh. There it developed as a

tradition by the same name where it was born. Kuchipudi

although now recognised as an independent dance form is

related to Bharat Natyam. It was in the 17th century

during the bhakti movement in the South India that

Siddendra Yogi the formulator of the dance form selected

some boys from the village to perform dance drama. Thus

came the Kuchipudi in this world. In those days

Kuchipudi was performed once in a year and the dance

form was cautiously kept out of the reach of Devadasis.

From the fist performers the technique and skills of

this form got handed over the generations to acquire the

present form. Some of the legendary performers and gurus

were Kuchipudi Brahmins like Lakshmi Narayan Shastri and

Chinta Krishna Murti who excelled in roles like

Satyabhama in Bhamakalapam; later gurus include Vedantam

Chinna Satyam.

Today both group performances and solo performances are

popular but experimentation are always being done with

the choreography. Kuchipudi is a dance a combination of

movements of the whole body.

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