 Kuchipudi Dance in Andhra Pradesh - Kuchipudi is a dance form given to the Indian dance platform by a small village of Kuchelapuram in the Vijayawada district of Andhra Pradesh. Kuchipudi is not simply a dance form but is a combination of dance, gesticulations, speech and song. A Kuchipudi dancer has 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 recognized as an independent dance form is associated 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, there came in the Kuchipudi dance form in this world. In those days Kuchipudi was performed once in a year and the dance form was vigilantly kept out of the reach of Devadasis. From the fist performers the technique and skills of this form got handed over the generations to obtain the present form. Some of the celebrated performers and gurus were Kuchipudi Brahmins like Lakshmi Narayan Shastri and Chinta Krishna Murti who excelled in roles like Satyabhama in Bhamakalapam; later gurus comprise Vedantam Chinna Satyam.
Nowadays, both solo and group performances of Kuchipudi dance form are popular but experimentation is always being done with the choreography. The devotional element has also been dispensed with and it has become a secular affair having predominantly erotic flavor.
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