Date:08/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/08/stories/2008100855251200.htm

National

A record feat in Kuchipudi dance form

Special Correspondent

Hundreds turn out to witness the festival of colour

— Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

In perfect sync: Kuchipudi dancers performing at Venkateswara temple in Guntur on Monday night to enter the Limca Book of Records.

GUNTUR: Synchronisation is the key to perfection in group classical dance performance and 108 Kuchipudi dancers from all over Andhra Pradesh made an attempt to create a record by dancing together on a single stage in Guntur on Monday night. The performance coordinated by Kuchipudi dance master K.V. Subrahmanyam turned out to be a festival of colour at Brundavan Gardens on Venkateswara Swamy temple premises.

Hundreds of people thronged the open-air auditorium to enjoy the `Kuchipudi Nrutya Mahayagam’ organised by Srisai Manjeera Music and Dance Kalaniketan with 40 of its students taking part. Initially they displayed the Ganapathi Kautham to Ragamalika song in Adi Talam. Dance master Chandu’s 14 disciples from Ongole, 10 from Nellore (Gayatri), six of Hymavathi from Ongole, 10 of Omkareswari (Ponnur), seven of Moinudddin from Prodduturu, four of Balaji from Hyderabad, and dance teacher Vijayalakshmi from Hyderabad brought 10 of her disciples and 15 disciples of Tripura Sundari from Narsaraopet participated.