Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu: Notes on an Unusual Cultural Conversation

Hanne M. de Bruin

Karnatic Meets Kattaikkuttu is an experimental production in which urban karnatic concert music and rural kattaikkuttu theatre artists collaborate on equal footing, ignoring the division of the Indian performing arts into “classical” and “folk.” Using music, language, and acting, the production addresses the blindness that prevents people, entrenched within their own cultural, social, and political ghettoes, from experiencing any art form with an open mind


Article in TDR published in September