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Performing Art · Karnataka
Episodes from the Ramayana are staged across Karnataka through dance-drama traditions like Yakshagana, brought to life through stylised movement, song and dialogue.
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The Ramayana has long supplied source material for Karnataka's dance-drama traditions, with troupes staging its episodes — Rama's exile, Sita's abduction, the war with Ravana — 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 Ramayana are staged across Karnataka through dance-drama traditions like Yakshagana, brought to life through stylised movement, song and dialogue.
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