The Manganiyar Seduction
Sat, 03 Oct
|Omaxe Chowk, Chandni Chowk
Forty three Manganiyar musicians, three generations deep, sit inside a glowing grid of windows that opens one by one into a single soaring symphony. Conceived and directed by Roysten Abel.
Time & Location
03 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Omaxe Chowk, Chandni Chowk, HC Sen Marg, Old Delhi, Chhippy Wada, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, Delhi, 110006, India
About the event
In 2006, Roysten Abel came across the musically gifted Manganiyar community of Rajasthan, folk artists who once performed for Rajasthani kings and, in time, carried their music into births and weddings as well. The Manganiyar Seduction is his answer to that discovery, a spectacle of music and light that channels the aesthetics of Amsterdam's red light district. Each of the forty three musicians sits inside a window of a larger grid, and the cubicles illuminate as they play, turning the stage into a visual treat.
Picture a stage of veiled compartments framed by carnival lights. Within them sit three generations of Manganiyar musicians, each a master of his own instrument. One by one, the curtains glide open, revealing the folk artists of Rajasthan as they pour themselves into one soaring symphony.
Conceived, arranged and directed by playwright and theatre director Roysten Abel, The Manganiyar Seduction is both a celebration of…