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Art forms and Performing Arts
of Kerala
Kathakali
Kerala is
known the world over by its own performing art form, the Kathakali.
"Katha" means story and "Kali" stands for dance. It is a beautiful
mix of dance, drama and music that the connoisseurs of art world qualified as 'a total art
form of immense sophistication and power'. It is a mime show, dancing with mudras (formulated
hand gestures conveying the text of lyrics) and specialised dancing steps following the song
rendered in the background by a singer to the accompaniment of Chenda, Maddalam (country
drums), Chenkila and Elathalam (Cymbals). This is a form of dance formerly confined only to
the festival stages in temples.
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