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Pavakathakali: Glove Puppets of Kerala
Content Provider | Internet Archive: Cultural Resources of India |
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Spatial Coverage | 2011-01-01 |
Description | Origin of Pavakathakali or Puppet Kathakali is attributed to the Andippandaram community, an itinerant group who travelled from Andhra Pradesh and settled in Kerala. They performed puppetry as they moved from village to village for their livelihood. When Kathakali became popular in the eighteenth century, they began to dress up their puppets in Kathakali costumes and make up and also adapted attakatha, the text of Kathakali, creating a new form of puppetry called Pavakathakali. This incredible form of glove puppets however became nearly extinct by the second half of the twentieth century. Pavakathakali today, retains the finesse and grandeur of Kathakali, the classical art form of Kerala, while making its highly stylized form more accessible and intelligible to wider sections of people. |
Access Restriction | Open |
Content Type | Video |