Titled Poetry through Dance, the piece will explore Sufi traditions, promising a synthesis of lyrical beauty and Kuchipudi’s elaborate elegance. Dance has no age, it is timeless.

Sometime in 1974, Vedantam Parvateesam designed a flag for the dance form of Kuchipudi. It featured a sugarcane stalk and a pink flag with Satyabhama’s braid. Last December, to commemorate 50 ...