Eight characters lost in the city, each carrying their own suitcase. Passers-by or immigrants?
Naïve and curious, their emotions are barely contained, they know nothing about our norms, our rules and our way of life.
The game they play is so subtle it could be mistaken for reality. It is precisely there where a space for dialogue opens, where the spectator becomes an active part of the exchange and the experimentation.
Kamchàtka eventually turns into a mirror; a mirror of our behaviour towards the Other, the Foreign, the Different. Shall we build our future with the Kamchàtka members or should we reject them?
Intense, potent and contemporary street theatre which prances over frontiers and upon our humanity.
THEY HAVE PLAYED IN MORE THAN 30 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!
Kamchàtka also creates Site Specific Projects and Workshops
Kamchàtka is an artist collective of diverse nationalities and disciplines who’s members first met in Barcelona in 2006. Driven by the same interests and concerns and under the artistic direction of Adrian Schvarzstein, they started training intensely in group improvisation on the streets of Barcelona and researched the subject of immigration. Barcelona… an ideal city for confronting a society laden with contradictions and immersed in profound problems of integration.
Since 2007, they have created their own poetic language around a trilogy on human migration - Kamchàtka (2007), Habitaculum (2010) and Fugit (2014) and have been performing in more than 30 different countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Their latest creation Alter (2021) is a site specific performance which is intimately linked to the landscape and to interaction with the audience.
The company also offers the Migrar workshop, a unique human experience around the Kamchàtka performance, for the inhabitants of your city, as well as an indoor production with a Symphony Orchestra of your choice - Music for wild beasts - an approach to classical music for all audiences.
Performers and creators
Cristina Aguirre, Maïka Eggericx,Sergi Estebanell, Claudio Levati,Andrea Lorenzetti, Judit Ortiz, Lluís Petit, Josep Roca, Edu Rodilla,Santi Rovira, Gary Shochat, Prisca Villa.
Performers
Amaya Mínguez, Jordi Solé
Original idea
Adrian Schvarzstein
A CARRER 88, S.L. production
Special thanks to
Escena Poblenou, Centre Civic Can Felipa, Barcelona, Obsidiana and Melando.
Supported on tour by
Institut Ramon Llull & INAEM