Il Quaderno di Nerina

In Il Quaderno di Nerina, author Jhumpa Lahiri asks the question who is Nerina? Without a last name, like a classical or medieval poet, like a Renaissance artist, the woman who, Jhumpa Lahiri assures us, wrote the verses collected in this book, escapes history and geography. Stateless, polyglot, educated, she writes about her existence between Rome, London, Calcutta, Boston, her connection with the sea, her relationship with her family, with words. Jhumpa Lahiri squares, in this notebook of exceptional and everyday poems, an identity.

Through this composition Robin Verheyen questions his own identity but also the identity of the baroque orchestra a s h e develops a contemporary language bringing together his own globetrotting existence through Belgium, Paris, NYC, Senegal and Burgundy. Using the poems of Lahiri as a guide he creates a story that questions and reinvents cultural identity. Prepare for a spellbinding journey full of sonic and musical surprises.

Coproductie and co-commission with Klarafestival & Bozar.