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Kathakali: Tradition, Innovations and Transitions in the Dance Drama of Kerala Sudha Gopalakrishnan 9781350236318

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Authored by a leading exponent of the form, this book provides a clear guide to Kathakali, exploring its origin, evolution, and characteristics and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience. Kathakali is an introduction to this vibrant mode of dance drama, which comes from Kerala in southwest India and combines poetry, music, rhythm, and dance to represent stories of gods, demons, and humans. Originating in the latter part of the 16th century, today Kathakali commands attention and involves practitioners from around the world. Largely drawing its stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, it integrates music, dance, grand makeup, and costume to evoke the epic universe. This book illuminates how Kathakali combines associated literary texts, performative conventions, and practices from local and pan-Indian contexts. The actors use their whole body-deploying complex dance movements, interpretive gestures, and highly developed facial expressions-as a site to depict, elaborate, and interpret action. Encapsulating the world of Kathakali, its performative grammar, and the aesthetic theories that underpin it, this book examines its history as one of continual change. The book traces the distinctive features of Kathakali, which is sometimes tightly structured with fixed conventions, and sometimes fluid enough to incorporate imaginative flights of fancy. It assesses Kathakali's cultural legacy and charts how the form has changed over the centuries. It also includes translations of extracts from poems, plays, and performance manuals, as well as interviews with actors and cultural historians.

Provides a clear guide to Kathakali - a mode of dance drama from Kerala in southern India - exploring the origin, evolution and characteristics of Kathakali today and the ways it has adapted for a 21st-century audience

About the Author
Sudha Gopalakrishnan is Executive Director, International Research Division at the India International Centre, New Delhi. She is Vice President, Sahapedia, an online encyclopedia of Indian arts, culture and heritage. Previously, she was founding director of the National Mission for Manuscripts, affiliated to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, India. She has published eight books including Kutiyattam: The Heritage Theatre of India (2010), Nalacaritam (2001), translation of the Kathakali text as well as the performance manual from Malayalam, translation of Krishnagiti (Sanskrit to English), and several academic papers relating to the policy and practice of India arts, cultures and heritage.


Book Information
ISBN 9781350236318
Author Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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