Om Periyaswamy dance troupe - Karakāṭṭam dance performed with hoops and balanced pots, Madurai (India), 1984

Title: Om Periyaswamy dance troupe - Karakāṭṭam dance performed with hoops and balanced pots, Madurai (India), 1984
Alternative title: Event 24: Om Periyaswamy & Nāiyāndī Mēḷam - Madurai
Creator: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Photographer: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Date Created: March 14, 1984
Date: 1984-03-14
Collection: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description: Karakāṭṭam dance, an acrobatic dance performed with pots balanced on the head, and hoops, in praise of the rain goddess Mariamman. Om Periyaswamy's son (?) holding 12 or more hoops in his outstretched arms, while exclaiming and balancing a silver pot, a tray of roses, and a parrot on his head. A younger dancer carrying four hoops horizontally passes in front of him. At the TamilNadu Hotel.
References: Ref: Ethnomusicology Archive, UCLA (coll. 198609_NA84): Bake Restudy Notes, p. 28, Jairazbhoy Diary, p. 61, Data Sheets, p. 119-131

Genre: slides (photographs)
Names: Hotel TamilNadu (Madurai, India)
Periyaswamy, Om
Location: Madurai (Tamil Nadu, India)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Dancers--India--Madurai
Karakāṭṭam (Dance)--India--Madurai
Folk dancing--India--Madurai

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