Format: Numerous theatrical interventions during an 8 hour long hike in nature
Commissioned by: Teatre Le Sillon
Dates: September 25th 2021
Place: Clermont l’Hérault (France)

Synopsis

EL CAMINO  is an artistic intervention sensitive to the territory, its landscape and the historical memory of the Herault region that Kamchatka Company created especially to accompany a day-long hike called ‘La Barrulla’, which is programmed by the Le Sillon theater in Clermont l’Hérault.

Project Description

The path is paved by the steps of those who tread it. It absorbs these steps, but also the stories and lives of those who walk it. The earth they trod, the trees in whose shade they rested, the rivers where they drank, the shelters where they shared their bread, preserve precisely these fragments of life, these memories… The slowness of walking will help us to cross time and to penetrate the memory of the path, of these paths that are being built under the footsteps of humanity’.
For its project: ‘La Barrula du Sillon’, 3 days of hikes blended in with theater in natural environment, the ‘Le Sillon’ theater in Clermont l’Herault, invited the Kamchàtka company to create a proposal around the theme of immigration and with its unique language to accompany a day-long walk with a series of interventions in landscapes between vineyards, mills and the banks of the river Hérault.
The participation of a dozen local residents as extras, the integration of material taken from the local historical archive on the Spanish ‘Retirada’ and the concentration camps of Spanish refugees in the area, the surprising play with nature and landscape as a dramatic element, the creation of unexpected images in the distance, the adaptation and use of local sites as performance locations and a very intimate and welcoming complicity and playfulness that was created with an audience of 200 people during the 8-hour journey, through more than 14km of walking (including a picnic where the actors ate with the audience in character, acting and playing with them) all this resulted in a uniquely moving event that resonated past times and stories, so pertinent to this region, and left no one indifferent.

Actors
Cristina Aguirre, Maïka Eggericx, Claudio Levati, Andrea
Lorenzetti, Lluís Petit, Edu Rodilla, Santi Rovira, Gary Shochat, Prisca Villa 

Artistic Coordination
Gary Shochat, Andrea Lorenzetti

Production
MELANDO / Jérome Devaud y Marie Michel

Special Thanks to
To the volunteering participants who joined us to create this human beauty. 
To Jérome Devaud for his total dedication, humbleness and human greatness.
To the Le Sillon team for their support and trust