10/07/07
Kathakali!

Fort Kochi, petite ville cotiere du Kerala. Il n'y a rien a faire ici que de flanner le long de l'eau et admirer quelques dauphins joyeux ou encore les fameux filets chinois: de grandes poulies les font lentement descendre puis remonter gorges de poissons, puis redescendre.... comme une lente respiration.

Mais quand la nuit tombe, je file au Kathakali Kerala Center. La des lampes a huile en cuivre eclairent la lente elaboration des maquillages de kathakali.


Fort Kochi, little coastal town of Kerala. There is nothing to do here expect for strolling along the water and admiring the joyous dolphins or else the famous chines nests: big pulleys makes them slowly go down and go up again filled up with fish, and down again... like a slow breathing.
But when the night falls down I head for the Kathakali Kerala Center. There coper oil lamps light up the slow elaboration of the kathakali's makeup.
Kathakali, which tells the often gory tales of a full pantheon of gods and demons, was born in the 17th century from the mixing of indian traditions with asian ones as the famous japapanes kabuki. It's theater and also danse and pantomime. Performers act and danse but never pronounce a single word. Dialogues are sang by musicians in Sanskrit - ancient Indhi, no more understood by Indians - and the actors use a complexe vocabulary of facial expressions and hand signs.

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