Kaikottikali, also known as Thiruvathirakali.This is a very popular, graceful and symmetric group-dance of the women. This is afestivel seasons like Thiruvathira and Onam. Typically dressed in Kerala style with mundu and neriyathu(Setmundu and blouse) and the hairbun bedecked with jasmine garlands the women dance in gay abandon, singing melodious Thiruvathira songs.. One of the performers sing the first line of a song while the rest repeat it in chorus, clapping their hands in unison. Moving in a circle, clockwise and at times anticlockwise, at every step they gracefully bend sideways, the arms coming together in beautiful gestures, upwards and downwards and to either side, in order to clap.
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