{"id":383,"date":"2017-08-09T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/?p=383"},"modified":"2020-06-06T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T09:45:48","slug":"kochis-kathakali-culture-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/09\/kochis-kathakali-culture-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Kochi&#8217;s Kathakali Culture Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back many days ago in Kochi &#8211; we&#8217;ve stayed in 4 hotels since then &#8211; we spent our last evening at a Kathakali culture show. Kathakali is an ancient method of dancing which is probably fab, if you like that sort of thing, or more importantly, you go and see a different performance. For us this was, well, erm, dull and surprisingly both Jane and Amy wanted to leave early, although to be fair this was still 90 minutes into a performance which is probably still going on now as it showed no signs of finishing anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>We watched the actors ply themselves with the Kathakali make-up, that was interesting. Then we got demonstrations of the eye movements (very interesting), hand movements (not so much) and expressions of emotions (standard).<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to see how fast the actor can move his eyes, it&#8217;s pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Long story cut short: I won&#8217;t be attending a Kathakali evening anytime in the (not so) distant future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PiymhTP6fU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back many days ago in Kochi &#8211; we&#8217;ve stayed in 4 hotels since then &#8211; we spent our last evening at a Kathakali culture show. Kathakali is an ancient method of dancing which is probably fab, if you like that sort of thing, or more importantly, you go and see a different performance. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/09\/kochis-kathakali-culture-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kochi&#8217;s Kathakali Culture Show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57,8],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update","tag-kathakali","tag-kochi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masala-dosa-diaries.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}