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PERFORMING ARTS OF KERALA
Unlike other parts of India, Kerala's geographie location in the extreme south-west protected it from extraneous influences allowing its many splendoured arts to continue and evolve with a certain insularity. Besides the world-renowned Kathakali. Kerala boasts of the oldest form of Sanskrit theatre, Koollattam ritual dances where blood sacrifices are still prevalent: masked and trance performances where dancers wear headgear more than 5 metres high, the most ancient martial arts technique, Kalaripayattu, and many other little-known forms of dance, war and ritual. In a society where every act is codified and every colour symbolie, symbolie, it needs a lifetime to understand the intricacies and the layers of meaning and sophisticati…

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