Resin

Émergeant d’une histoire interculturelle enchevêtrée qui traverse les siècles, les continents et les croyances, la musique séfarade est un témoignage vivant des diverses rencontres entre le judaïsme et les communautés où la diaspora séfarade s’est établie

Resin is a work created on musics hailing from the rich Sephardic tradition. Emerging from a spirited and tangled intercultural history that crosses centuries, continents and beliefs, Sephardic music is a living testimony of the varying encounters between Judaism and the communities where the Sephardic diaspora settled. A dancer compresses his body against the walls of a cone of light; the luminous circle rises, the lament of a shofar rings out, Resin can begin.

Just as the work moves from intimate duets to the dazzling, almost imperceptible, footwork of a quartet of dancers, Alonzo King explores the possibilities offered by the vast panorama of traditional Sephardic music. In this “Diaspora in the Diaspora” as the curator and ethnomusicologist Francesco Spagnolo wrote, “the music of the Sephardic Jewish community came into contact with the music coming from Europe, particularly from Italy and the Balkans, but above all with the Arabic and Turkish musical heritage”. Precious archive recordings are interwoven with Judaeo-Spanish musics.