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Methuen Drama Kathakali: Tradition, Innovations and Transitions in the Dance Drama of Kerala (Forms of Drama)

Name: Kathakali: Tradition, Innovations and Transitions in the Dance Drama of Kerala (Forms of Drama)
Brand: Methuen Drama
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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.

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Brand: Methuen Drama
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350236314
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Dance > Genres > Folk & Regional
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 February 2025
Listed Since: 08 May 2024

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