KUCHIPUDI CLASSICAL DANCE

   Kuchipudi is one of the top ten classical dance in india.Today it became the top ten classical dance in the world. Kuchipudi born in "Krishna District",, Andhra Pradesh State, India.

          fig : Kuchipudi dancer in "Tribhanga" bangima (posture).

Kuchipudi, like other classical dance forms in India, traces its roots to the Natya Shastra,a foundational treatise on the performing arts attributed to the ancient scholar Bharata Muni. Its first complete compilation is dated to between 200 BCE and 200 CE, but estimates vary between 500 BCE and 500 CE.

Dance-drama performance arts related to Shaivism, in Telugu-speaking parts of South India, are evidenced in 10th-century copper inscriptions, and these were called Brahmana Melas or Brahma Melas.The medieval era dance-drama performance artists were Brahmins.This art was likely adopted by the musical and dancing Bhakti traditions of Vaishnavism which grew in the 2nd millennium, whose devotees were called Bhagvatulus in Andhra region and Bhagvatars in Tamil region of south India.n Andhra, this performance art evolved into Kuchipudi, while in Tamil Nadu it became known as Bhagavata Mela Nataka.

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