To bring back the glory of Kuchipudi Yakshagana is what every lover of
dance would welcome. And this would seem to be the aim of the new effort
which has been named International Dance Research and Training Centre
at Kuchipudi, the village where the entire story of this dance began
centuries ago. Abu Hassan Tanisha, the Nawab of Golkonda
(1672-1687 A.D), on a visit to Machilipatnam where he was treated to an
impressive performance by a Nataka group (harnessing music, dance and
the spoken word in a total theatre form) gifted land in appreciation to
the actors, for establishing a dance village. But today’s sleepy
Kuchipudi village, with hardly any survivors from the halcyon past of
the Yakshagana tradition, lives largely on memories.
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