High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kalamandalam Ramankutty Nair is one of the most senior performers of Kathakali, having been a grand and sober presence on the art form's stage for a span of over seven decades. More than the longevity, it is the poise and precision of his body movements that enable him to stand out as a master craftsman of the heavily stylised Kalluvazhi style of the four-century-old dance-drama from Kerala in southern India. If Kathakali, like any classical performing art, is poetry in motion, then Ramankutty Nair, with his jerkless and polished movement of the limbs and torso, best exemplifies it. He owes the purity of his style to his legendary guru Pattikkamthodi Ravunni Menon, his only teacher in his entire career. Both hail from Vellinezhi, which is still known for churning out a lot of Kathakali artistes, in Palakkad district. Ramankutty Nair had served in his alma mater, Kerala Kalamandalam, and went on to become its principal.

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