Hindu Devotional and Temple Dance Drama

The South Asian tradition of staging Hindu epic and devotional narrative, Ramayana, Krishna and temple mythology, as sung, danced or acted public devotion: Ramlila (the Ramayana staged across North India at Navratri), Manipuri Sankirtana (Vaishnava ritual singing and drumming of Manipur), Ras Lila (Krishna devotional dance of Braj), Kutiyattam (the Sanskrit temple theatre of Kerala), Kathakali (Kerala classical dance drama), Mudiyettu (Kerala ritual dance drama of the Bhadrakali temples), Chhau Dance (the masked martial dance tradition of eastern India), Yakshagana (the night-long dance drama of coastal Karnataka) and Krishnattam (the Krishna temple dance cycle of Guruvayur). Belongs here: a South Asian performance tradition enacting Hindu devotional or epic material as dance, temple ritual or public festival drama. Does not belong here: a South Asian tradition with a different religious lineage, such as a Buddhist or Islamic one, held under its own tradition family instead.