After the afternoon tour of the Museum and the Jewish Quarter and Synagouge in Mattencherry in the afternoon, the group was booked for a cultural show before proceeding for a seafood dinner at a nearby seafront restaurant. The first part of the show was a demonstration of the performers putting up the make-up on their faces.
The show was a mix of classical Indian dances, the baratha natyam and perhaps the most impressive and probably the signature of Keralan culture, the Kathakali dance. The strength of the dancer is in his or her ability to express the different forms of human emotion by means of intense facial expressions. The descriptions and explanations of the various facial expressions tremendously helped pakdokter in understanding the finery and intricacies of the Indian dances...
There was also an exhibition of the Kalari Payatu, an ancient form of Martial Arts from India, claimed to have predated even the Shaolin masters and Karate and Jujitsu froms of the Far East!
the artiste demonstrating the facial make-up...
the welcome dance ...quite like our own tarian lilin...
baratha natyam....
one of the many expressions of the kathakali dancer...
a scene from the Ramanaya epic...
Sandra with the performers on stage...
baratha natyam....
one of the many expressions of the kathakali dancer...
a scene from the Ramanaya epic...
Sandra with the performers on stage...
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