Dance

Mangalamkali

India

Mangalamkali is a dance ritual related to marriage functions as a form of entertainment. Usually mavilas (a tribe in kasaragod and kannur districts Kerala (state of south India) perform this.

Mangalam kali is a dance ritual related to marriage functions as a form of entertainment. Usually mavilas (a tribe in kasaragod and kannur districts Kerala state of south India perform this. Certain music instruments too are used like thudi.
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Mangalamkali is a dance ritual related to marriage functions as a form of entertainment. Usually mavilas (a tribe in kasaragod and kannur districts Kerala (state of south India) perform this. Certain music instruments too are used like thudi. The dance movement gradually become fast. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mangalamkali”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Mangalamkali is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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