White Light Reschedules MANGANIYAR SEDUCTION, 11/22-23

Due to a delay in issuing visas for musicians traveling from New Delhi to New York, the performances of the closing presentation of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival, the U.S. premiere of Roysten Abel's extraordinary music-theater work The Manganiyar Seduction, have been postponed to Monday, November 22, and Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Performances will take place as planned in the Rose Theater, in Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 60th Street), at 7:30 PM.
 
Jane Moss, Vice President for Programming for Lincoln Center and director of the White Light Festival stated, "We are very happy and excited that we were able to arrange for the later performances of this very special presentation.  In our initial planning of the White Light Festival, we felt that the Manganiyar Seduction represented an essential component of the range of musical expression we wished to offer in the festival, and its joyousness and exuberant spirit was a perfect closing presentation for the festival. The early strong ticket demand for the performances also indicatEd Strong audience interest in this festival event."
 
The Manganiyar Seduction is performed by North India Manganiyar musicians and singers in a dazzling multi-tiered set.
 
Over the past few weeks Lincoln Center and the State Department have worked together closely to resolve outstanding visa issues for the 50-member company. As of Friday, November 12, not all members of the company had been issued visas in time for them to travel on Sunday, November 14 as scheduled.  Lincoln Center decided to postpone the performances until November 22 and 23, when it was expected that the entire company could be in New York.  All visas have now been approved.
Ticket holders may attend the rescheduled performances by using their original tickets.  Those holding tickets for the Wednesday, November 17 performance will be honored on Monday, November 22.  Tickets for the Thursday, November 18 performance will be honored on Tuesday, November 23.  Refunds and ticket exchanges must be made in person at the Alice Tully, Avery Fisher or Frederick P. Rose Hall box offices by Friday, November 19.  Refunds may also be secured by mailing tickets to:
 
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Alice Tully Hall Box Office
1941 Broadway
New York, NY 10023Attn: White Light Refund
 
Additional information is available on the White Light Festival website, WhiteLightFestival.org, or by calling Lincoln Center's Customer Service line,
212/875-5456.
 
The Manganiyars, a caste of Muslim musicians from Northern India who originally performed for The Kings Of Rajasthan, have uniquely incorporated the worship of Hindu deities into their Muslim faith. They perform Indian folk music in a repertoire which ranges from ballads about the kings and Sufi songs by various mystics, to songs for occasions such as births and marriages. In The Manganiyar Seduction, the musicians, led by Daevo Khan, perform in a mesmerizing set (that the director compares to a "magic box") that was inspired by both the women's quarters of Hawa Mahal, a royal palace in Jaipur, and the red light district of Amsterdam.  The Manganiyar Seduction premiered in 2006 at the Osians Cine Festival in Delhi, and has toured in Europe as well as to Australia and Singapore.  The next U.S. performance is scheduled for Washington .D.C. in March, 2011.
 
The White Light Festival which opened on October 28, is a new fall festival at Lincoln Center, The Festival focuses on music's unique emotional capacity to move us beyond ourselves and illuminate our larger interior universe.  In its debut season, the Festival has explored the overtly spiritual manifestations of music's transcendent power as revealed in different cultural traditions. The festival includes ten U.S. and New York premieres and debuts by artists and companies from 15 countries, including Belgium, China, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Germany, India, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Russia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. 
 
Support for White Light Festival is provided by Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Logicworks, The Winston Foundation, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, Great Performers Circle, Chairman's Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.  
 

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