The Yakshagana dance is performed by the devotees on every special day throughout the year. The devotees genuinely believe that Goddess Durga reveals a part of herself during the performance.
Yakshagana is the proud art of coastal Thulunadu, complete with its literature, music, dance, acting, costume, and Mukhavarnike (facial dressing with designs drawn in colors). Keeping in view a systematic and disciplined study of the various aspects of this unique art and a graded training in it Sri Durgaparameshwari Yakshagana Patashala was started. The subjects of study incorporated in the course range from Bhagavthike (singing), chende (a leather instrument of percussion beaten with twin sticks), Maddale (another oblong leather instrument played on both sides with finger) Nrithya and Mukhavarnike, all of the southern school of Yakshagana, to information on the text (Prasanga), characterization, study of Mythology and Epics all together making up the overall concept of stage performance and stage direction. A Yakshagana library and a collection of traditional costumes and ornamental articles are the proud possessions of this school. Lectures by authoritative scholars and practitioners in the field, workshops, seminars, symposia, and demonstrations by experienced artists form part of the curriculum. The students have the opportunity to get basic training in and knowledge of the fundamentals of all the facets of Yakshagana art. Later they can go for expertise in the department of their choice the six Yakshagana troupes maintained by the Temple promise to provide the students getting out of this school a ready stage on which to practice and mature in their art. Presently eight are getting trained under able teachers.
