Night crossing

16pm Workshop – 17pm Walk – 18pm Concert – 19:30pm Dinner
Entering the night is always a unique passage that accompanies each day of our lives. Night, with its enveloping darkness and deafening silence, can be both a time of anguish, for it is dangerous, and also a time of rest where everything calms down. Night is the abode of the dead, but it is also starry; its cloak protects us.
The ancients keenly felt this unique sensation one experiences at the approach of night and within the night itself, and personified Night, but also and especially the Dawns (the arrival and departure of night), with various deities. We will therefore embark together on a symbolic journey through the night, accompanied by the Indian goddess of the forest, Ara'yani.
This performance will unfold as an initiatory tale, a journey where we will travel with the souls of the dead and creatures of the night. Texts and songs from diverse cultures and traditions, in various languages—ancient, traditional, and lyrical songs (ancient tradition, Jewish tradition, Western classical culture, opera)—texts in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, and Hebrew, will illuminate our path into the depths of the world as prayers to Nature and the Divine that resides deep within each of us.
The theorbo, a large Baroque lute, accompanies this journey like a voice from the shadows. Its deep, resonant timbre engages with the night, supports the voice, and opens a space for inner listening. An instrument of chiaroscuro, it becomes the sonic thread connecting silence, text, and song.
The deep sounds of this ancient instrument embrace the movements of the soul and the narrative to root it in the different cultures and musical styles of the program.
The accompaniment for each piece has been carefully crafted and adapted to suit the specific styles and atmospheres of the performance. Solo pieces provide moments of respite between different eras and cultures.