Silk

Silk is the story of a French merchant who travels to Japan to buy silkworms. There, he falls in a quiet and platonic love for a mysterious local girl, experiencing a passion suspended between reality and desire.

The performance captures Alessandro Baricco's delicate poetics and transforms it into a gentle yet intense performance, mirroring the delicacy of silk. A captivating harmony of images, music, and movement perfectly evokes the novel’s themes of nostalgia for what has never been experienced, and the fragility and preciousness of desire and existence itself.