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Kuchipudi dance is from the southern state of Andra Pradesh. The name comes from the village Kuchelapuram. The dance has a kind of young flirtatious quality. Sometimes the dancers dance with their feet on the edges of a circular brass tray. The women usually have a long braid which swings and sometimes is held as they dance.

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Dance Magazine Kuchipudi   Kuchipudi feet
 
Mudras

alapadmaAlapadma - with palms up all the fingers are stretched with little finger and ring finger stretching upward and thumb stretched out
to look like a flower

trisulaTrisula - palm facing forward and index finger, middle finger and ring finger extended up ward and thumb crosses hand to join little finger.

karkataKarkata - both hands stretched open , palms facing toward the body and fingers interlaced

 

Vocabulary

Shiva Nataraj - The dancing God Shiva shown in a circle of fire, who created the world with a dance. The world and eveything in it, is Shiva's dance.

Tandava - the male or dynamic form of dancing

Lasya - the female or soft form of dancing