Great coordination is depicted in this dance as the performers, usually eight to ten in number, clap in unison. Performers move in circles sometimes in clockwise and sometimes in anti-clockwise directions, gracefully bending in sideways as they do so. Dancers co-ordinate their hand movements as they go clapping upwards and downwards in rhythm with the beat and in tune with the song they are singing. Generally, the girls move in a circle around a decorated flower (made of flower petals). This is generally on Onam. One of the performers in the front start a line of Thiruvathira pattu (a song) and the others repeat it as a chorus.