The Nine Jewelled Deer in Aix

The Nine Jewelled Deer in Aix

Or was it ten? One lost count. But that was early in the evening of the telling of this sort of parable with accompanying instrumental improvisation by six earnest musicians.  Two voices told a story, veiled in a flowery, Southern Indian language (definitely not Modi’s Hindi!), with added, projected English text from time to time, occasionally spoken other times. The English supertitled in French. The story seemed to tell of the rape of a young …