{"id":6536,"date":"2020-02-25T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T09:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6536"},"modified":"2023-04-14T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:33:57","slug":"yakshagana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/yakshagana\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakshagana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Yakshagana<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; background-color: #ffff00;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Art and culture<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Yaksha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6538\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Yaksha-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Yaksha-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Yaksha-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Yaksha-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Yaksha.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">About:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What is it?<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Yakshagana is a traditional theatre form that combines dance, music, dialogue, costume, make-up, and stage techniques with a unique style and form.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Name:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Yakshagana literally means the song (gana) of the yaksha (nature spirits).<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Region:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>It developed in Udupi, in the state of Karnataka. It is popular in the Karnataka districts of Dakshina Kannada, Kasaragod, Udupi, Uttara Kannada and Shimoga .<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Background:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>This folk art is believed to have originated somewhere in between the 10th and 16th century.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Theme:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Yakshagana is strongly influenced by the Vaishnava Bhakti movement. Its stories are mainly drawn from Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata and other Hindu epics.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Key Features:<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>A typical Yakshagana performance consists of background music played by a group of musicians (known as the himmela); and a dance and dialog group (known as the mummela), who together enact poetic epics on stage.<\/li>\n<li>Yakshagana is traditionally presented from dusk to dawn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Types:<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The tenkutittu style:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>It is prevalent in Dakshina Kannada. Tenkutittu is noted for its incredible dance steps; its high flying dance moves; and its extravagant rakshasas (demons).<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Badagutittu style:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>It is prevalent in Uttara Kannada District and places more emphasis on facial expressions, matugarike (dialogues), and dances appropriate for the character depicted in the episode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Key highlights:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is believed to have evolved from pre-classical music and theatre during the period of the Bhakti movement.<\/li>\n<li>It is sometimes simply called \u201cAata\u201d or \u0101\u1e6da (\u201cthe play\u201d in Tulu Language).[2] This theatre style is mainly found in coastal regions of Karnataka in various forms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Towards the south from Udupi to Kasaragod of Tulu Nadu region, the form of Yakshagana called as \u2018Badagu thittu\u2019 and towards north upto Uttara Canara it\u2019s called \u2018Thenku Thittu\u2019. Both of these forms equally played all over the region.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yakshagana is traditionally presented from dusk to dawn. Its stories are drawn from Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavata and other epics from both Hindu and Jain and other ancient Indic traditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS. <a title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakshagana Relevance: Prelims: Art and culture About:\u00a0 What is it?\u00a0Yakshagana is a traditional theatre form that combines dance, music, dialogue,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,7],"tags":[5207,5204,5205,4878,720,5208,722,5206,5202,5203,392,5201],"class_list":["post-6536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-i","tag-badagutittu-style","tag-bhakti-movement","tag-hindu-epics","tag-karnataka","tag-mahabharata","tag-performance","tag-ramayana","tag-tenkutittu-style","tag-traditional-theatre","tag-udupi","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc","tag-yakshagana"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14139,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6536\/revisions\/14139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}