The Manganiyar Seduction

I got to see this yesterday at the Esplanade (part of the Singapore Arts Festival).

It's just amazing how very old traditions can still be enjoyable, allowing the younger audience to gain access to the old world.

These guys are a group of Muslim musicians who are telling the world of their love for God.

I think the program says that the main song is ..."of the poet Bulleshah who explains the essence of love for God to himself and the audience. He praises the presence of God who is everywhere in the three worlds, visible in land, alive in things, and the universe. God has given his name to all of this; whatever you see and feel you can experience God in it...

Each religion wants to reach heaven. Bulleshah, on his personal way to reach God, became a dancer who transcended his sexual identification and experienced the presence of God through his dance. He realised that if he would do any fault and falls from God's grace, he will not go to a temple or mosque but seek direct forgiveness by dancing with pure love just for God."