Silk

In Silk, based on the world-famous novel by Alessandro Barrico, the seeker reaches beauty through the only known path – self-sacrifice in love. The main character of the story comes out of the small space of trade, crosses the whole world to remain speechless in front of beauty – the only means of civilizations, with which it is possible to cross time. In the empire of beauty, man discovers the true dimensions of his own spirit, realizes the price of love and humility.

The great beauty of love as the end point and goal of the human journey through life is the theme of this performance. 'Silk' is a metaphor for human anxiety. The platonic love story between the French silkworm merchant Hervé and a nameless girl living in a Japanese village unfolds the metaphor of the road as a link between different civilizations, questions how compatible they can be at all, reveals diametrically opposed understandings of basic human categories such as success, profit, purpose of existence, social subordination, modernity and traditionality. But above all the historical events marked in the spectacle – riots in Japan, the trial of Baudelaire's literary work The Flowers of Evil, the docking of American ships that broke the centuries-old isolation of Japan, the transformation of the French peasantry into an industrial bourgeois stratum – there is something immutable that reigns, that conquers both Eastern and Western civilizations: the inexplicable beauty.