Vocal and instrumental Carnatic music in the Telugu language accompanies the performance. This is followed with by the expressive part of the performance ( nritya), where rhythmic hand gestures help convey the story.
Next, the performance presents pure dance ( nritta). Then, each costumed actor is introduced, their role stated, and they then perform a short preliminary dance set to music ( dharavu). The Kuchipudi performance usually begins with an invocation. A dancer in a female role would wear a Sari with light makeup. A dancer in a male role would be in Agnivastra, also known as Bagalbandi, wear a dhoti (a single pleated piece of cloth hanging down from the waist). The traditional Kuchipudi was performed by all males troupe. Kuchipudi largely developed as a Krishna-oriented Vaishnavism tradition, and it is known by the name of Bhagavata Mela in Thanjavur. Kuchipudi tradition holds that Tirtha Narayana Yati – a sanyassin of Advaita Vedanta persuasion, and his disciple, an orphan named Siddhendra Yogi, founded and systematized the modern version of Kuchipudi in the 17th century. Evidence of Kuchipudi's existence in an older version are found in copper inscriptions of the 10th century, and by the 15th century in texts such as the Machupalli Kaifat. It developed as a religious art linked to traveling bards, temples and spiritual beliefs, like all major classical dances of India. Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of Natya Shastra. Kuchipudi, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, India
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