Vedantam Ramalinga Sastry is an Indian classical dancer in Kuchipudi.
Arunima Kumar (born 1978), Sangeet Natak Akademi Yuva Puraskar awardee for the year of 2008 for Kuchipudi As a young girl of 9, Arunima acted in the ballet Amrapali
Kuchipudi, which also prescribes the lip movements indicating Vaachikaabhinaya, and Mohiniyattam are relatively recent Darbari Aatam forms, as is Kathakali, and two eastern Indian styles, Manipuri and Sattriya, that are quite similar.
Indian Nutcracker is an adaptation of the famous story of Nutcracker into South Indian Classical Dance Form called Kuchipudi.
Septum piercing was a popular trend among South Indian dancers (Kuchipudi, Bharatnatyam) and among certain Native American peoples in history; the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, for example, had such piercings.