Every middle-aged artiste in Kuchipudi, a village in Krishna district, fondly reminisces how, in their childhood days in the 1980s, children would perform a dance-drama in the evenings in the front yard of their houses to the songs rendered by women, mostly their mothers.
This remains a cherished memory of every person, belonging to the families of gurus, including Mruthyunjaya Sarma, a trained dancer in Kuchipudi, one of the nine classical forms of dance in the country.
“These days, such sights have become obsolete because the younger generation is least interested in continuing the legacy,” says Mruthyanjaya Sarma, a dance teacher in Hyderabad who had come to the village during the the annual festival of Goddess Bala Tripuraneni Sundari Kalyanam at Kuchipudi village in March.
