is getting excited. team those moves with some fancy footwork, and you have a performance — in theory at least. fast drumbeat. laughs. that is very good, very impressive. traditionally, a classic kathakali performance can go on for many hours, sometimes a whole night. but some modern audiences have shorter attention spans, so the artform has had to adapt. you know, the original one, it goes throughout a night, you know everything is in detail, everything is intricate. and nowadays we are condensing it for a 1.5, two hour program. so in a way we do