About Araka
He has designed and produced shows like LOST DOG (FETEN Award Best unconventional show 2017 ) and A-Ta-Ka! (Best Show Keochang International Festival KIFT 2012 (South Korea), where his scenography’s and flying elements have invented surprising visual languages for the audience.
Lost Dog
- FETEN 2017 Award – Best Unconventional Show
- MAX Awards – Finalist Best Street Theatre Show
A-Ta-Ka!
- Best Show Keochang International Festival KIFT 2012 (South Korea)
MARCOS CASTRO SOLORZANO (Burgos 1980) is scenographer and stage director.
Trained in various artistic disciplines, he has a passion for street and object theater since a young age.
In 2002 co-founded Cal y Canto Teatro with Ana Ortega, a theater company that has configured a personal aesthetic on festivals around the world participating in 26 countries; Taipei Arts Festival (Taiwan), FETA Gdansk (Poland), Shanghai Children’s Arts Festival (China), Festival de la Cité, Lausanne (Switzerland), Tunbridge Wells Puppetry (England), Puppentheater Magdeburg (Germany), Festival d’été de Québec, and Ricca Ricca Festa (Japan).. to name just a few in their extensive career.
His works have participated in festivals in 26 countries around the world.
FETA Gdànsk (Poland) · Taipei Arts Festival (Taiwan) · Shangay Childrens Arts Festival (China) · Festival de la Cité, Lausanne (Switzerland) · Tunbridge Wells Puppetry Festival (England) · Puppentheater Magdeburg (Germany) · Festival d’ete de Quebec · Ricca Ricca Festa (Japan)
are just a few in his long career.
2025
In 2025, he received the special distinction of directing the main show for the Longford Lights Festival (Ireland), which also premiere at the Birr Vintage Arts Festival.
2024
In 2024, he moved to Vitoria-Gasteiz and ARAKA starts to create radical and innovative proposals that connect dance with visual poetics in open spaces.
That same year, he created a commissioned project for the Vitoria City Council for the Olentzero Parade.
Photographic Appendix
Alongside his stage direction, he has developed a personal research project as a photographer, focusing on the ancestral popular culture in masquerades and carnival celebrations, so closely linked to street theater. His photographic project, which documents many of these manifestations in remote locations in the north of Spain called “Divinos Carnales”.
Thanks to his constantly nomadic profession, he has been able to photograph diverse places around the world, almost always immersed in themes related to less explored artistic expressions, but also addressing issues such as depopulation and its consequences, immersing himself in isolated realities, in a long-term commitment to authentically reflecting these environments.
Thanks to this profession of constant movement he has been able to photograph various places around the world, almost always immersed in themes related to lesser-explored artistic expressions, but also addressing topics such as depopulation and its consequences, diving into realities on the margins, in a long-term commitment to reflect these environments with authenticity.
