Sandhya Raju / Modern Kuchipudi / Performance Poetry / Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman

This piece is dedicated to my Mother Nirmala Raja on her birthday Feb 2nd for being a phenomenal woman ! Creative Director and Kuchipudi Danseuse Sandhya Raju attempts to use the language of Kuchipudi Dance , (an ancient South Indian Classical dance style) to express the voices and thoughts relevant to modern world. American civil right’s activist and poet Maya Angelou’s ’Phenomenal Woman’ was the poem of choice for this beautiful experimental piece of art. This production gives the audience a time travellers warp like experience. Imagine Taking ancient Indian dance language created in the first Century and using that to express powerful english words written by an American Civil rights activist of the 20th century ! Sandhya feels the true power and potential of the ancient form of Kuchipudi is unleashed when it is welcomed as a relevant medium to express modern even futuristic thoughts prose and poetry. breaking barriers of Language. After all to Dance is to tell a story ! To Dance is to stir rev