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Kathakali Dance Performance

Discover the dance-drama storytelling tradition of South India

The most iconic images of Kerala, apart from its backwaters is that of the traditional Kathakali dancers with their painted masks of green and white. Learn more about the Kathakali dance forms and the artists who perform it, with a behind-the-scenes look at their make-up rituals followed by a dance interpretation of gestures and facial expressions. Revel in an hour-long performance of Kathakali with a narrative selected from some of India’s epic poems or mythology and discover a new form of storytelling through the medium of dance and drama.

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