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Kamchàtka atl ArtCargo Perfoming Arts Festival in Cyprus. Author: Aniktos Hadjicharalambous
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What have we done this year?
2025 is coming to an end, a year of touring, creation, new processes and new countries.
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This year we performed for the first time in Turkey and Cyprus. In Izmir, at the Özdemir Nutku Uluslararası İzmir Tiyatro Festivali and at the first edition of the ArtCargo Performing Arts Festival in Limassol, Cyprus.
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It has also been a great year for our piece FUGIT, which we premiered for the first time in the United Kingdom, as part of the prestigious Milton Keynes International Festival, and which has been awarded the 2025 Spanish national performing arts Max Award for Best Street Performance.
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Bordeaux and its FAB festival have also been a key location for Kamchátka in 2025 French audiences were able to see three of our shows and two open rehearsals of our new creation: Incontinuo all within a span of a week.
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Our oldest project, Kamchàtka, is still going strong and has toured the Out There Festival in Great Yarmouth (United Kingdom), the Cergy, Soit! festival in Paris (France) and the FETA festival in Gdansk (Poland). Closer to home, Kamchàtka was performed at the Al Carrer festival in Viladecans, the Barcelona Magic Line event and the DRETS HUMANS, PARLEM-NE! conference in Sant Hipolit de Voltregà.
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Thank you to everyone who has accompanied us!
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Kamchàtka at ArtCargo Perfoming Arts de Chipre in Cyprus. Author: Timofey Kolpakov
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INCONTINUO is a journey!
A continuous journey. Ever since the sparks and excitement of the initial ideas, many creative minds have joined in and, together, they have been flying high, very high. Sometimes they glide, sometimes they collide, sometimes just cross paths and sometimes they contradict each other, but they are always bubbling with ideas!
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We also have trustworthy friends who accompany us in this journey: they support us, listen to us, observe our work in its different stages and help us refine our aim.
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This creation is becoming a journey that we will soon make land in order to share it with everyone. During 2025, we have done various creative residencies in different places. In April, we began our first international creative residency in Aurillac, France. In June, we continued the process of creating the new show, hosted by the Comédias do Minho project in northern Portugal, which included a public performance.
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In October, we were at the FAB Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux Métropole, followed by a musical residency with the French Compagnie du Coin at the CNAREP Sur le Pont - Centre National des Arts de la Rue et de l'Espace Publique in La Rochelle, where we tested the progress of the creation with the French public.
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In November, we showed some more of the creative process at the Escenaris de Llum event organised by the Fundació Carulla in Barcelona and at the Memorial Camp de Rivesaltes in France.
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To get a taste of this new creation, here's a sample of what we have titled: ‘InCrescendo’, the first experiments we did with an audience resulting from these different residencies.
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We are premiering a new teaser for the show Kamchàtka!
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Don't miss the new promotional video clip of our show Kamchàtka, which, 18 years after its premiere, continues to tour the world and has visited more than 35 countries.
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Opening paths in the world of training
Once again this year, we have both organised as well as collaborated with various training projects on creation in public spaces.
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The ‘Convent de Pontós’ (Girona), hosted the 2nd edition of EnTandem, our professional training programme focusing on creation in public spaces.
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This year Kamchàtka worked in collaboration with renowned artist and director Roger Bernat, offering the attendants a binomial training which juxtaposed two different ways of conceiving creation, writing and dramaturgy…Two pedagogies that, through practice, entered in dialogue and went a little further and reached a little deeper.
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Together with the participants, which included 15 highly motivated professionals which were joined by various Kamchàtka company members, we explored the possibilities of performing in a wide array of settings (both private and public) and contexts through numerous exercises and proposals.
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SPASA - Street Performing Arts Synergy Alliance
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We participated in the first research laboratory promoted by SPASA (Street Performing Arts Synergy Alliance), a project that promotes street arts and works for the recognition and dignification of the sector.
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For four days, a quartet of thinkers sat and worked together: Diana Delgado, researcher; Ferran Orobitg, public space artist, member of Fadunito; Marta Puigla, student; and Prisca Villa, public space creator and member of Kamchàtka. We immersed ourselves in research and artistic practice to explore street arts and test prototypes which could encourage reflection and insight within the world of Street Performing Arts.
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ITAEB Institut de tècniques Audiovisuals de l’espectacle de Barcelona
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2025 was also our first year teaching a specially created training course in street arts to high school students in the performing arts baccalaureate programme and college students in the Theatre Acting Techniques programme at the ITAEB Institute. A very enriching experience!
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Theorising and sharing
This year, we have had the privilege of sharing in various international forums and platforms some of the insight and reflection we have accumulated over the years on what public space is, what characterises a theatrical creation for public space, and what meaningful and sustainable footprints we can aspire to leave behind. Among others:
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- Panellists at the round table “Creation with the Community” at the international conference on art in public space “Fresh Street” in Great Yarmouth, England.
- Teaching the workshop “Dramaturgy, work processes and models of creation for public space” at the Street Arts Congress organised by PATEA in Vila-real, Spain.
- Panelists at the round table “Reimagining Public Space: Street Arts and the Power to Create Spaces” as part of the professional activities programme at Fira Tarrega, Spain.
- Interview in the series of articles “Fresh Street #5” by “Circostrada” about our work and its significance in the context of “place-making”.
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