Artists perform "Yakshagana", a traditional folk dance known in coastal Karnataka and Kerala, at Nassau Coliseum in New York. Sen. Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection in 2026 The best late ...

Popular in Karnataka, it can also be looked as ... Even female roles are enacted by males in Yakshagana. This folk dance form is slowly gaining attention even outside the country.

BANGALORE: If one looks at the folk dance forms of the South ... and present a Yakshagana recital as a followup, Ananya and the Karnataka Yakshagana Academy have drawn up a daylong demonstration ...

Viknesh, aka Jo, says, “We’ve often been told by artists that Karnataka has the most number of folk dance forms among the Indian states, and there is more to us than Yakshagana. And of these ...

The recent state-level Yakshagana Sammelana established the fact that the rich folk art is thriving ... the local languages of coastal Karnataka, are more popular now. The dance drama has evolved ...

When they started off their journey about 23 years ago, Yakshagana, the classical-folk dance drama of coastal Karnataka, was considered a man's domain. UDUPI: When they started off their journey ...

such is their dexterity that they can perform the local folk dances of Karnataka with much ease. From Kamsale to Veeragase and Yakshagana to Pooja Kunitha, name a folk dance and they can perform ...

Chandana Wickramasinghe’s dance group will render a slice ... give a peek into the Norwegian world of folk music – Nodjford. Karnataka’s Yakshagana Puppets and Indonesian Puppetry by Wawan ...

Yakshagana is a traditional folk dance form popular in coastal Karnataka districts. The actor had even shared that his journey as an artiste started when“I was in sixth grade when I performed ...