Ferran Orobitg, with over 20 years of experience, is one of the established names in street theater. Together with Ivan Alcoba, this actor from Cervera founded the Fadunito company in 2003, which began performing in Catalonia but immediately went international and has presented its works at the world's most popular festivals. His first creation was the show “La Grande Famílle,” created in 2005, which received the 2006 ARC Award from the Association of Representatives of Catalonia for best street theater show of the year.
In 2007, he moved to Marseille (France) to study street arts at the FAI-AR (Advanced and Itinerant Training in Street Arts, 2nd year).
During the period 2007-2010, he worked on a personal project on the accessibility of public spaces, “Accessible” (2010), an urban artistic and social intervention project on the accessibility of public spaces. This project gave rise to the show “Ceci 3.0” (2011), a remote-controlled wheelchair that interacts with passers-by in the street. The company still produces this creation today, and it has been performed in more than 10 countries.
After working for nearly 15 years on various collective projects, and without losing sight of his interest in human capabilities, social issues, etc., Ferran Orobitg felt the need to embark on a solo project, to bring together all these artistic concerns and to test his own limits, in the first person. This led to his first solo show, LIMITS, which premiered at FiraTàrrega 2017 to great public and critical acclaim. He then began to explore a new line of theatrical research and received theater research grants from the Generalitat for: 2020: Performing Arts and Health 2021: Performing Arts and Education: The Masterclass 2023: Street Arts and Community Health
In 2021, he created a unique street arts education project in Spain, SPASA. SPASA is a two-week international street arts training program. Taking advantage of two important performing arts events taking place in quick succession in the province of Lleida, four companies will give intensive courses on the subject for an audience interested in creation in public spaces. E
n 2022, he was awarded the Fira Tàrrega and Ramon Llull Hivernem Grant for research into street arts. He is conducting a research project on “the gaze in public space.” This work has led to the production of the hybrid show “OPIA,” co-produced by Fira Tarrega itself, Cratere Surface, l'Atelline, and the Grec de Barcelona, which will premiere at the Festival Cràtere Surface d'Alès 2024 and FiraTàrrega 2024.
Residency project:
SEMINARE “The Word in Public Space.”
Seminare is a residency offered in tandem to two people with very different academic, artistic, and cultural backgrounds, Sara Vendrell and Ferran Orobitg.
Seminare seeks to explore the relationship between culture, in its etymology of cultus (cultivated, worked), and agriculture, understood as the cultivation of fields for basic food, starting from the seeds sown. In this way, they combine the image of the need for food with artistic culture as a fundamental element of human growth.