Kathakalin.
/kɑːtəˈkɑːli/ A South Indian dance-drama based on Hindu literature, and characterized by its stylized costume and make-up, and frequent use of mime.
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1900 T. K. Gopal Panikkar Malabar & its Folk v. 74 Malabar Drama... Our drama..assumes various forms of which Krishnattom and Ramanattom are the principal ones. The latter is usually called Kadhakali and constitutes our drama proper... Our drama is altogether a dumb-show in which the actors never utter a word but do everything by signs and gestures.
1933 R. K. Yajnik Indian Theatre iii. 61 The ‘Kathākāli’ of the Malabar district..fairly gives an idea of what a country drama is like.
1967 Spectator 18 Aug. 193/3 At the Saville..we are seeing Kathakali for the first time in its pure form. Dating from the sixteenth century, indigenous to Malabar, it is a dance-drama drawn from the great Indian epics.
1969 Cultural News from India Nov. 13 Kanak has devoted her whole heart and soul to the study of Kathakali and defied tradition in the fact that females are traditionally debarred from dancing the genre.
1969 R. Shankar My Music iii. 63/2 The noble style of the dance drama, Kathakali.
1974 H. R. F. Keating Bats fly Up i. 10 The measured-to-a-fingersbreadth gestures of a Kathakali dancer.
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