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In the Blue Houses Dream the Mountains

*Image description: Performance set of a lit house and 4 hanging paper panels with mountain projections.

*Image description: A singer is singing on stage and mountain projections on the paper screens behind.

*Image description: 4 performers in plain attire and scattered rocks on stage.

*Image description: 3 performers with mountain backpacks, clusters center stage under bright light.

*Image description: Performer crafts toy mountain. A wavy bamboo mesh with paper frames stuck onto it.

*Image description: Kutiyattam performer center stage, 2 drummers behind, and kuzhithalam player to the right.

*Image description: Kutiyattam performer, as Sugriva, with arms poised in midair.

*Image description: Poothan performer in ornate attire with tall headgear and face mask on stage.

*Image description: 3 pairs in Kalaripayattu stick fight with 4-foot-long cane sticks, plain attire.

*Image description: Performers pose on stage. 2 in plain attire left & right. 2 in paper skirts upstage center.

*Image description: Two performers upstage lean against each other before panels of fabric loom film projections.

*Image description: Shadow silhouette of three performers against the backlit paper screen.

*Image description: A Performer under bamboo sticks net, 2nd kneels, 3rd with thread wings in flying pose.

*Image description: 2 musicians & 1 singer right, sign language interpreter left. projection panels upstage.

*Image description: Performer lifts mountain sculpture, 2 others approach. 4th performer shadows behind panels.

*Image description: Fabric weaving on a loom, weaver's hands in shuttling motion.

*Image description: A photograph of the workspace in which the weaver and the loom sit.

*Image description: Thin bamboo strips weaved in a crisscross pattern by the sculpting artist.

*Image description: An artist traces the drawing for making the bamboo sculpture.

Video Archives

  • “Kutiyattam and the Mountains have a significant relationship. In every story, mountains

     are a major part, be it Kailasodharanham or Govardhanodharanham.”  - Abheeshta Nath JR

  • “The performer’s body and eyes are the only means of portrayal here. They turn their body into a mountain” - Kalamandalam Jishnu Prathap

  • “For me, the body is an instrument to connect, to act, to experiment, and connect to the outer world.” - Mruthul C M

  • “Mountains have unusual shapes with bumps and pits which is a very difficult form to achieve in this material. Even weaving a normal basket is not an easy task.” - C P Mohanan

  • “These memories are from those hillsides and the fields along the foothills. These are the most beautiful memories.” - Subheesh E S

  • “The art form is based on the myth that Pootham was created from Lord Shiva’s hair to help Badrakali kill Darika….” - Syam Sasikumar

  • “Connecting different mountain cultures and art forms was really challenging and exciting.”

    - Aijesh Anto

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