{"id":257982,"date":"2023-08-30T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257982"},"modified":"2023-08-30T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:41:49","slug":"artistes-breathe-a-new-life-into-seethakali-folk-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/artistes-breathe-a-new-life-into-seethakali-folk-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistes breathe a new life into Seethakali folk art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cArtistes breathe a new life into Seethakali folk art\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 28th August 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Perinad Seethakali Sangham, a group of artists from diverse backgrounds, revived the dying Seethakali folk art form in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This group is now set to perform outside Kerala for the first time<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Seethakali folk art?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seethakali is a traditional folk-dance drama from Desinganad, Kerala.It is primarily performed during the Onam festivities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Performed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The performance is carried out by Dalit artists belonging to the Veda and Pulaya communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Based on: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The art form is based on certain episodes taken from the epic Ramayana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The performance portrays the tale of Sita\u2019s journey, from vanayatra (exile to the forest) to Sita\u2019s andardhanam (descend into the earth).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Features: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The art form is a blend of songs, storytelling and fast movements.It is accompanied by instruments such as ganjira, manikatta, chiratta and kaimani.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The costumes and the make-up are loud and eye-catching.The characters of Rama and Laxmana appear in green since the color is used to represent gods and goddesses in Kathakali.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Reason for decline: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seethakali songs were orally transmitted from one generation to the next, which led to a pause in the tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cArtistes breathe a new life into Seethakali folk art\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 28th August 2023 What is the News? The Perinad Seethakali Sangham, a group of artists from diverse backgrounds, revived the dying Seethakali folk art form in 2017. This group is now set to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/artistes-breathe-a-new-life-into-seethakali-folk-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artistes breathe a new life into Seethakali folk art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-257982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}