Kathakali
Tradition, Innovations and Transitions in the Dance Drama of Kerala
Series: Forms of Drama;
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Product details:
- Publisher Methuen Drama
- Date of Publication 20 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350236318
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 206x132x18 mm
- Weight 320 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 664
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Series preface
Preface
Foreword, David Shulman
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The World of Kathakali
Chapter 2. A New Expressivity in Literature and Drama (16-18th centuries)
Chapter 3. Savouring Kathakali: Toward an Aesthetic of Imagination
Chapter 4. Changing Contours, Consolidating a Tradition
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
