He is our guru - Avijith Das 

this is a posture in our dance form - kuchipudi. 

so,
     my name is Sri Tulasi. I have created this blog for spreading awareness among people about the classical dance - kuchipudi. Myself and my mother are kuchipudi dancers. we are yet learning this dance from our guru - Avijith Das.

I love this dance and I want to spread it.
     
 have a nice day.

Kuchipudi is one of the classical styles of Indian dance. Around the third and fourth decade of this century it emerged out of a long rich tradition of dance-drama of the same name. In fact, Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Krishna district of AndhraPradesh. It is about 35 km. from Vijayawada.
Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of natya shasthra. It developed as a religious art linked to traveling bards, temples and spiritual beliefs, like all major classical dances of India. 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. Kuchipudi tradition holds that Tirtha Narayana Yati – a sanyasinn of advaitha Vedanta persuasion, and his disciple, an orphan named Siddhartha Yogi, founded and systematized the modern version of Kuchipudi in the 17th century.Kuchipudi largely developed as a Hindu god krishnaoriented vaishnavism tradition, and it is most closely related to Mahabharata Mela performance art found in Tamil Nadu.