Jodhpur RIFF 2026. Venue: Chokelao Bagh. Entry: Full Festival pass/ Day Pass. Four artists and two distinct traditions come together in this amazing collaboration. Originally developed for Jodhpur RIFF 2023, INAYAT: A Duet for Four is an original collaboration that has continued to grow over the past 3 years. With the young and immensely talented Tarini Tripathi, a third generation danseuse trained under her mother Gauri Sharma Tripathi and grandmother Padma Sharma, and the mellifluous music of Sadiq Khan- one of the finest dholak players in Rajasthan, Asin Khan- recipient of the Aga Khan Music Awards and arguably the best Sindhi sarangi player of his generation, and Zakir Khan Langa- khartal player extraordinaire - together forming the celebrated Langa folk trio SAZ - creating the foundation over which the performance develops… tales of devotion, longing and valour carried in the Langa repertoire are rendered visible in gesture, expression and footwork, without once diminishing their musical integrity. With Gauri Sharma Tripathi's Kathak choreography responding directly to the dholak, Sindhi sarangi, khartal and the songs of the Langa community of Rajasthan, INAYAT has graced stages in Rajasthan, Mumbai and New York, making its international premiere at the prestigious Lincoln Center, this year Jodhpur RIFF 2026 presents the first look at INAYAT's latest iteration. This collaboration is an ongoing Jodhpur RIFF commission, developed in collaboration with ANKH, Mumbai Brhannala From Behrupiya to Kathak, Pava Kathakali to Kudiyattam, Jodhpur RIFF is committed to presenting unique and rigorous root performing arts traditions along with its music program. And Jodhpur RIFF 2026 sees its first ever full-length theatre performance. Based on an extract from the epic Mahabharat, in the thirteenth year of the Pandava's exile Arjuna disguises himself as a woman in the house of the Kauravas - the warrior becomes a teacher of dance and music in the court of Virata. What follows is a demanding year that makes Arjuna set aside everything he has defined himself by until then. Adishakti Theatre - one of India's most rigorous and respected theatre companies, takes this episode of Arjuna's life as the premise of Brhannala to explore the idea of advaita (not-two or non-dual). Through the language of movement and metaphor, the performance questions what it means to inhabit another form without losing oneself, and whether the boundaries of the self and the other are as solid as we imagine them to be. In Arjuna's year as Brhannala, the play explores a profound enlightenment, that it is precisely in the act of becoming something else that we discover what we truly are. Originally directed by the late Veenapani Chawla, and enacted by virtuoso Vinay Kumar, Brhannala is a one-of-a-kind confluence of theatrical depth, epic ideas and the existential dilemmas that are at the heart of what it means to be human.