Kuchipudi Compositions

1. Kuchipudi Compositions | Nrityangana Kuchipudi is a traditional dance form whose Kuchipudi Compositions at Nrityangana Dance Academy are selected carefully keeping in mind the time-honored tradition. The torch of Bhakti has been passed on from centuries to the present. Epics and mythology are great sources and inspirations for compositions that have captured the hearts of hundreds and thousands of people all over the world. The group of dances in the program includes various instances, the ones of demonstrating pure rhythmic patterns up to pieces of deep emotional narration. A Sabdam is a powerful expression dance pattern starting with the main narration and followed by Padams and Javalis, which are largely the subjects of devotion, love, and missing. The true form of Kuchipudi compositions is Sabdam, which is an expressive music sequence that introduces the primary narrative, and then are followed by the Padams and Javalis that deal with the themes of devotion, love, and longing. The Keertanams and Tarangams go along with Kuchipudi are also from the main part of the same music, Tarangams are the kind where dancers demonstrate their

2. skill through the balancing of brass plates on which they perform various rhythms, the same with Keertanams. Nrityangana Dance Academy is best known for Kuchipudi art form for years and the students are given training in each and every movement so that they become artists with the emotion and the grace that is required to succeed. Kuchipudi is not just a dance of the gods followed by the people, the characters are played in live performances with music and dance. Moreover, many compositions in Kuchipudi are sung by the devoted to Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva, and Goddess Lakshmi, and almost all of them are divine stories that are told in an exaggerated manner, but due to the performers’ grace, it is always touching and moving. The impart of details in Kuchipudi music is usually made on the basis of Carnatic music style, so in the composition other instruments are also employed, namely, mridangam, violin, flute and veena. However, the organization does not restrict itself to such traditional subjects as it opens % to a possibility of combining traditional with contemporary Kuchipudi compositions thus, allowing the students to expose the two. Not only do the dancers at Nrityangana Dance Academy gain technical skills but also a renewed spiritual and artistic sensibility is developed through the dance.