#kathakali

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I just liked it so much that I'm reposting it here

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Paintings of Kathakali dancers

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Kathakali dancer, New Delhi, India

Earl & Nazima Kowall

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Grayson Hawthorne x desi ! Reader

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Portrait of Kalamandalam Gopi 🎭 Acrylic on Styrofoam Sheet | Approx. 50 × 70 cm Painted over 16 years ago, this was one of my early works, created during my first job at an advertising company in India. I used a Styrofoam sheet as canvas — a humble material that held one of my most passionate expressions.

This portrait honors the legendary Kathakali maestro Kalamandalam Gopi, capturing a moment of silence before performance — where grace, emotion, and discipline live between brushstrokes.

Still proud of this one.

By: Jayesh Kumar (Artist JK)

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Kerala culture scenes from: AARAATTU (2022)

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it is so irritating to me that how these stupid dance shows do not have any respect for the classical dances like ?!?!? i bet u my whole fucking life that these stupid dance show's so called "judges" can't do any type of classical dance and yet they go on shitting stuff like "ur dance was nice but a fusion or a different form would be even better" from they mouth like yk what else would be better? u stop breathing. yeah.

like the amount of disrespect they show to these superior dance forms like Bharatnatyam and kathak and all by fusioning them with these so called international dances like no disrespect to international dance forms but they are in no way superior to our own classical dance forms. a classical dancer goes through so much during their dance trainings. a ballerina is respected because her foot suffers so much in her dance trainings learning ballet so why are these classical dancers not getting THEIR respect that they DESERVE. look at a classical dancer's feet. it would not be soft cute uwu rather it would be hardened and will have calluses that shows the years wirth of trainings and pains they suffered yet u want to mix that dance form with other dance forms? just bc u think that the classical dance form alone is 'boring'?

Art is something that is beyond culture and traditions, i agree but that does not mean one has to lose their originality, their identity to cater to someone else's standards. if a classical dancer only performs classical dance it is NOT 'boring', it is NOT 'less talented' than others. please stop. stop making it seem like a classical dancer needs to have some international dance forms mixed/fusioned with their original dance forms to looks more 'interesting'.