Kerala Kathakali Centre

What travelers say:

The performance starts at 7 pm and can be entered at 5:30, because it is necessary to see the makeup, the requirements for the makeup are very, very high, the materials are mainly rice paste, green leaves, oily smoke, pigments and white paper, which are extremely delicate. Cochin is the birthplace of Kathakali Katakali, a unique Kerala dance, with a 400-year-old classical dance. The dancers don’t sing or speak, but only by gestures, postures and facial expressions to show the story. The dance is composed in the form of soundtrack, which is the basic feature of Katakali dance, which is accompanied by two singers with fins, feet and drums. It is mostly the storyline of the Indian epic Mahabharata, Ramoyanna and the ancient Book of the Past. A Katakali dancer, who is 7 to 12 years old, has been trained for about twelve years and is the longest-trained type of dance in classical Indian dance. In addition to practicing dance skills, actors also train the eyes, brows, mouth, cheeks, neck and other parts of the face so that they can move freely. In classical Indian dance, Katakari's application of eyes, brows, mouth, cheeks, neck and other parts of the field is much more difficult than other Indian schools.