Sentences with phrase «mask dance form»

The yyarn, the traditional mask dance form of dalits in Kerala, was used as a means to rebuke, ridicule and to some extent question the atrocities and injustices done to them.

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African masks often form part of a dramatic performance which incorporates dance and music.

In an article for the London Times, Dalrymple explains, «Theyyam dance is a spectacular form of possession dance from northern Kerala, in the southwest of India, remarkable for its vibrant music and its astonishingly powerful and elaborate makeup and masks.

Occupying its own cavelike room in the gallery, which the viewer is encouraged to enter alone, this animatronic sculpture — a buxom blonde woman in a green witch's mask who dances to pop songs while facing a mirror, all the while using facial - recognition technology to follow your eyes — forms the headline - grabbing core of Jordan Wolfson's debut at the blue - chip Chelsea gallery.

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In addition to those blasts of aerosol and the dance of the wrist, viewers will be rewarded by looking as well for the ways in which Solomon would mask off certain forms within the painting.