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"Kuchipudi is a cultural heritage of Andhra Pradesh."
"In Andhra, particularly the Bharata's Natya Sashtra had been highly developed in the medieval times, in the courts of the Kakatiyas, Reddis, Rayas and Nayudus of Warangal, Kondavidu, Vijyanagar and Racakinda. In the Kuchipudi tradition, the Bhagavatas of Andhra preserved a considerable amount of the knowledge of Bharata's Natya Sastra."
"Kuchipudi started from Samskrutha roopakam and in the 13th Century, Kalaapam was started by Saint Siddhendra Yogi. The inspiration for Kalaapam, ‘Yakshaganam’ was scripted by Kandukuri Rudra Kavi named Sugreeva Vijayam, which was useful in the performance of Kuchipudi bhagavathas from which Yakshaganam was adopted."
"[That was the beginning of the 60s]. In those days, Sangeet Natak Akadem conferences deemed only four Indian styles as classical dances, and Kuchipudi was not one of them. Owing to the profusion of dance masters who were Kuchipudi trained, Kuchipudi was termed as a "filmy dance" or Koothu. However, in the 1958 Natya Kala Conference under the leadership of Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao, Vissa Appa Rao and others, Kuchipudi was just beginning to get some amount of recognition."
"Kuchipudi deals mainly with religious themes and relies on the philosophy of jeevatma’s desire to merge with parmatma."
"An artiste should not live on art, they should live for art."
"Kuchipudi originated as a group performance. So when the solo form emerged, the pressure on the dancer was more as the dancer had to delineate different characters and varied moods."
"It is the dance form that gives you scope to perform diametrically opposite characters at one go, as the theme progresses in the form of episodes. A single dancer can perform the entire Kurukshetra. No other dance form offers this opportunity."
"Kuchipudi there is no dancer, no actor, no musician who is exclusively that. The dancer is the actor; the actor is the musician is the dancer. All put together. It's story-telling. The whole point of it is the style developed with a group of boys taken on to act and.tell the stories. In fact, it was not just dance alone. In India, dance and drama have never been separate. And the dramatic element in Kuchipudi is very important. That is the difference between Kuchipudi and Bharata Natyam — that, in Kuchipudi, the dancer is the story-teller. If a particular point can be put across more by mime, then that is the element to be used."
"Kuchipudi's fundamental pillar has always been the quicksilver change of pace, the spontaneity and the sparkling dance."
"Tillana in Kuchipudi is pure nritta. There are many people who think Kuchipudi is pure gymnastics, it consists entirely of the plate dance."