Kuchipudi Day in Q8

My friend Jyoti had a dance performance at Carmel School on account of Kuchipudi Day organized by Telegu Kala Samiti on Friday evening. She invited us and so we went to Carmel School to watch her performance. The school is at Khaitan and we had never been to that area. But our friend Dr Rifat and Sharmistha’s children studies in that school and so my husband enquired about the location and road to be followed from them. Rifat da had nicely explained to Jeet the way and so without any difficulty we reached the school. If you want to know details about Carmel School, you can check the official website http://carmelschoolkwt.com/
Next to Carmel School is another school, New Pakisthan School. The programme was supposed to start at 5.30pm but it got late and started at around 7pm.

The snacks and tea which the Samiti served in between the programme was refreshing. For dinner they gave us coupons but we did not wait for dinner as we had some marketing to do at Lulu Hyper. We enjoyed the programme and had a wonderful evening. Everything was well organized.

A Guinness Book world record was set in Cupertino, California as the largest number of dancers (318) performed Kuchipudi, the ancient Indian classical dance form, here on June 21,2008. The feat was authenticated by Danny Girton of the Guinness Book of world records at the site in DE Anza College in Cupertino, Silicon Valley, California. About 2,000 people attended the conference, Participants included dancers from five continents assembled to set a world record and participate in the three day International Kuchipudi Dance conference on June 20- 22.

SiliconAndhra flew the dancers in from locations around the world. SiliconAndhra is a nonprofit, non-political, non-religious, cultural and community organization based in the Silicon Valley (Bay Area), California. The function of the organization is to serve the community through cultural and charity work. The organization seeks to promote, preserve and spread Telugu culture (“samskriti”), literature (“saahityam”) and traditions (“sampradayam”) of the Andhra Pradesh region of India and strives to instill the value system in the community.

Incorporating complex choreography with assorted facial expressions, the Kuchipudi is a centuries old classical dance form that originated in a small southern Indian village Kuchipudi, in Andhra Pradesh.