{"id":1081,"date":"2022-08-19T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T06:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoenixindiaassociation.org\/ip2?p=1081"},"modified":"2022-08-19T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T07:35:40","slug":"1081","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Nihanvi School Of Kuchipudi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with it\u2019s roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natya_Shastra\">Natya Shastra<\/a>.\u00a0It developed as a religious art linked to traveling bards, temples and spiritual beliefs, like all major classical dances of India.\u00a0Evidence of Kuchipudi&#8217;s existence in an older version are found in copper inscriptions of the 10th century, and by the 15th century in texts such as the\u00a0<em>Machupalli Kaifat<\/em>.\u00a0Kuchipudi tradition holds that Tirtha Narayana Yati \u2013 a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanyassin\">sanyassin<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advaita_Vedanta\">Advaita Vedanta<\/a>\u00a0persuasion,\u00a0and his disciple, an orphan named Siddhendra Yogi, founded and systematized the modern version of Kuchipudi in the 17th century.\u00a0Kuchipudi largely developed as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krishna\">Krishna<\/a>-oriented\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vaishnavism\">Vaishnavism<\/a>\u00a0tradition, and it is known by the name of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhagavata_Mela\">Bhagavata Mela<\/a>\u00a0in Thanjavur.<br>The traditional Kuchipudi was performed by all males troupe. A dancer in a male role would be in\u00a0<em>Agnivastra<\/em>, also known as\u00a0<em>Bagalbandi<\/em>, wear a\u00a0<em>dhoti<\/em>\u00a0(a single pleated piece of cloth hanging down from the waist).\u00a0A dancer in a female role would wear a\u00a0<em>Sari<\/em>\u00a0with light makeup.<br>The Kuchipudi performance usually begins with an invocation. Then, each costumed actor is introduced, their role stated, and they then perform a short preliminary dance set to music (<em>dharavu<\/em>). Next, the performance presents pure dance (<em>nritta<\/em>).\u00a0This is followed with by the expressive part of the performance (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nritya\">nritya<\/a><\/em>), where rhythmic hand gestures help convey the story.\u00a0Vocal and instrumental\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnatic_music\">Carnatic music<\/a>\u00a0in the Telugu language accompanies the performance.\u00a0The typical musical instruments in Kuchipudi are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mridangam\">mridangam<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cymbals\">cymbals<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Veena\">veena<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flute\">flute<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanpura\">tambura<\/a>.<br>The popularity of Kuchipudi has grown within India, and it is performed worldwide.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with it\u2019s roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of\u00a0Natya Shastra.\u00a0It developed as a religious art linked to traveling bards, temples and spiritual beliefs, like&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixindiaassociation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}