Kuchipudi

Question 1

Kuchipudi was a very popular dance drama in andhra pradhesh

Question 2

500 yrs ago, some brahmin artists got together and created a dance drama traditions in a village called kuchipudi

Question 3

When the vaishnavite religion spread, the dance teachers selected episodes form the bhagavad gita and composed dance dramas that later was known as kuchipudi.

Question 4

There are 2 types of traditional kuchipudi traditional and mundane.

Question 5

Kuchipudi performed by Devadasis in temples as prayer is considered religious

Question 6

Kuchipudi performed outside the temple for the general public is mundane

Question 7

Kuchipudi dance was born to preserve the sanctity of Kuchipudi tradition.

Question 8

Nirutha Ratnavli by Jyappa Nayaka and other books written at the time informed us about the profound knowlede of dance attained by the master Gundamatya and his illustrious student Jayappa Nayaka.