Dance Studio Wall Art

Dance Studio — 5 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Mohiniyattam — the dance of the mohini, the enchantress — is one of Kerala's classical solo dance forms, marked by gentle swaying lasya movement, the half-seated araimandi stance, and the plain off-white-and-gold kasavu costume seen here; its modern repertoire was consolidated at Kerala Kalamandalam in the twentieth century. The picture is built in the idiom of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition, which uses the panchavarna five-colour system — red, yellow, green, black and white over an ochre ground — in flat opaque fields bounded by a bold lamp-black outline, with the school's signature elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Theyyam is the ritual dance-worship of North Malabar — Kannur and Kasaragod — in which a performer, after long preparation, dons elaborate vesham of painted face, towering mudi headdress and red costume and is believed to become the deity or deified ancestor for the duration of the performance, often danced at dawn in a kavu, a sacred grove, to the chenda drums and torchlight. The picture is built in the idiom of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition, which uses the panchavarna five-colour system — red, yellow, green, black and white over an ochre or red ground — in flat opaque fields bounded by a bold lamp-black outline, with the school's signature elongated lotus-shaped eyes; the deep red ground suits both the costume and the lamp-lit grove. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, centred on the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur near Puri and the Jagannath temple, worked in five mineral colours on patta with crisp lamp-black contour and profile figures. Chhau is a masked martial dance-form of eastern India — its three styles (Mayurbhanj, Seraikella and Purulia) are inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2010), with Mayurbhanj Chhau danced without masks and Seraikella using painted crested masks.

Updated 22 Jun 2026