For the average Kathakali actor, going two years without a performance might be a worrying track record. Ettumanoor P Kannan is not your average Kathakali actor, though. He is much more — an academic, ...

Ancient epics are full of grisly deeds. In “Beowulf,” the hero yanks Grendel’s arm off and hangs it, dripping, from the rafters of the mead hall. In the Iliad, Achilles, after killing Hector, attaches ...

The nine-year-old girl is an emerging Kathakali artiste To have a profile like that, she did start very young. “I was introduced to Kathakali when I was in kindergarten and I remember those days in ...

Once a thriving mode of story-telling, Kathakali, one of the most recognized dance forms from India has been reduced to a tourist gimmick that exists merely to adorn colourful tourist brochures. Most ...

Heralding a new chapter of friendship and cultural exchange between India and South Korea, the inland city of Miryang, hosted ...

The avant-garde dancer Guru Gopinath (1908-1987) was an ambassador of Kathakali, who believed that the dance-theatre could be popularised only if it is staged in a manner intelligible to the common ...

Renjish Nair, an acclaimed Kathakali artiste and disciple of Kalashree Kalamandalam C. Gopalakrishnan, recently performed at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) earlier in June as part ...

...Undoubtedly, Kathakali is the prime attraction for every tourist who visits Kerala. Here is a glimpse of what goes in the green room before a performance The first step has him applying basic ...

Organised by Tripunithura Kathakali Kendra as part of its monthly programme, Kamsa Janardhanam took the audience through the helplessness of Kamsa’s father Ugrasen, who was imprisoned by his own son; ...

K.P. Kunhiraman, one of the world's foremost artists of Indian kathakali dance, was to be honored - along with his wife, Katherine - Saturday at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. But on ...