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Performing Art · Karnataka
Episodes from the Mahabharata are staged across Karnataka through dance-drama traditions like Yakshagana, bringing the epic's battles and dilemmas to life.
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The Mahabharata is a core source of stories for Karnataka's dance-drama troupes, who stage its episodes — the Pandavas' exile, the Kurukshetra war, Krishna's counsel — through the night at temple festivals.
Actor-dancers in elaborate costume and makeup perform the epic's episodes in stylised movement and sung dialogue, backed by live percussion and a narrating vocalist.
Episodes from the Mahabharata are staged across Karnataka through dance-drama traditions like Yakshagana, bringing the epic's battles and dilemmas to life.
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