Bhama kalapam

The tall and well built, yet feminine Satyabhama in all her regalia of the Toorpu Bhagavatam tradition, befitting her status of King Satrajit's daughter and Krishna's spouse, endeared herself to all, in the auditorium. She fleeted through a variety of emotions: a woman proud of her birth to a rich king, a woman suffering pangs of love on separation from her Lord, a woman in an inane disagreement with her husband and a woman of wisdom in complete surrender to the Lord.

Introduction of kuchipudi

Kuchipudi  is a Classical Indian dance form Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also popular all over South India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka of Krishna district that borders the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form, it acquired the present name.


A Kuchipudi Dancer from Andhra Pradesh

The performance usually begins with some stage rites, after which each of the character comes on to the stage and introduces him/herself with a dharavu (a small composition of both song and dance) to introduce the identity, set the mood, of the character in the drama. The drama then begins. The dance is accompanied by song which is typically Carnatic music. The singer is accompanied by mridangam (a classical South Indian percussion instrument), violin, flute and the tambura (a drone instrument with strings which are plucked). Ornaments worn by the artists are generally made of a light weight wood called Boorugu.It originated in the seventh century