A ceremonial dance, it is often performed during the festive seasons like Tiruvathira and Onam. It is a simple and gentle dance with the lasya element forming its main part in overall dance. Sometimes, even men participate in it, where the thandava part is also brought in dance performance occasionally.
Both the participants wear the typical Kerala clothing with mundu and neriyathu and adore themselves with jasmine garlands. Women sing the melodious Thiruvathira songs; one of the performers sings the first line of a song while the rest repeat it in chorus, clapping their hands altogether. Moving in a circle, clockwise and at times anticlockwise, they bend sideways with their every step, while their arms come together in beautiful gestures, in order to clap; upwards, downwards and even at the either side.
