{"id":2923,"date":"2023-02-18T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:41:24","slug":"what-is-yakshagana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-yakshagana\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Yakshagana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Yakshagana:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Yakshagana is a traditional <strong>folk dance form<\/strong> popular in Coastal <strong>Karnataka<\/strong> districts.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a rare combination of <strong>dance, music, song<\/strong>, scholarly dialogues and colourful costumes.<\/li>\n<li>Traditionally, men portray all roles, including the female ones, though women are now part of Yakshagana troupes.<\/li>\n<li>A typical troupe consists of 15 to 20 actors and a <strong>Bhagawatha,<\/strong> who is the master of ceremonies and <strong>the main storyteller<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are the elements of Yakshagana?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Act:<\/strong> Each performance typically focuses on a small sub-story (known as \u2018Prasanga\u2019) from ancient <strong>Hindu epics of Ramayana or Mahabharata<\/strong>. The show consists of both stage performances by talented artists and commentary (performed by the lead singer or Bhagawatha) accompanied by traditional music.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Music:<\/strong> <strong>Musical instruments<\/strong> used in Yakshagana include <strong>Chande (drums), Harmonium, Maddale, Taala<\/strong> (mini metal clappers) and flute among others.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dress:<\/strong> Costumes used in Yakshagana are very unique and elaborate. Large size headgear, coloured faces, elaborate costumes all over the body and musical beads on the legs (Gejje).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is folk dance?<\/h3>\n<p>Folk dance is generally a type of dance that is a vernacular, usually recreational, expression of a past or present culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1900033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM condoles demise of noted Yakshagana playback singer, Shri Balipa Narayana Bhagawatha<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakshagana is a traditional folk dance form popular in Coastal Karnataka districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}