Birja

Birja is what Georgian shepherds wait for when it starts raining; all they have to do is observe the landscape serenely, and accept its slow metamorphosis. Inhabited by this image and by the idea of transhumance, Renaud Herbin creates a dreamlike, visual show. In a set design as simple as it is sublime, puppets in the shape of animals, bearers of stories, visit a man who has retired to his shelter. Alone among the beasts, he watches for the migrations of his existence. Music and song, performed live, lend this philosophical tale an ineffable poetry.