Kathakali dance troupe to perform at festival in Egypt

A nine-member Kathakali dance troupe from India will participate at the 14th Summer Festival, organised by Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, on August 1.
The troupe, led by Rajumohan Padinharey Kizhikkilode, will travel to Port Said, Ismailia and Cairo to perform in different places including Port Said Cultural Palace, Ismailia Cultural Palace and the Egypt Society for Culture and Development (ESCD) Cultural Palace, El Golf Area, Heliopolis.
The shows will be held during August 1-6.
The Indian dance form is a complex art. It includes dance, drama, literature, music both vocal and instrumental, and plastic form of art, such as painting and sculpture.

The perfect and balanced combination of all these fine arts makes Kathakali a unique and at the same time very complicated art form.