About

Karakashyan & Artists is a theatre and dance company boldly moving across disciplines under the artistic direction of director and choreographer Kosta Karakashyan.

The company creates immersive experiences that center the audience in emotionally charged and socially engaged ways. Working at the intersection of dance, theatre, literature, cinema, and food, they transform both unconventional sites and traditional stages into portals for embodied storytelling.

In a world where we often feel like spectators of our own lives, Karakashyan & Artists creates unique, large-scale immersive productions that place the audience at the heart of the work. Performances unfold in kitchens, landfills, public spaces, warehouses, beaches, toilets, caves, runways, and film sets, redefining the boundaries of what dance and theatre can be. The company embraces the intimate, the visceral, and the subversive, exploring a movement language that subverts traditional dance vocabulary in favor of authentic emotional expression and invites collaborators to follow their own impulses, creativity, and agency.

Founded in 2021, the company’s repertoire includes the culinary-theatrical immersive performance KITCHEN, the dystopian ecological performance The Last Sunset, staged at the Regional Landfill for Nonhazardous Waste in Gabrovo and co-produced by Goethe-Institut in partnership with Greenpeace and commissioned by the 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire, and Tales from the Cosmos, a collaboration with Cosmos Restaurant that reimagines Bulgarian folktales through dance and food.

In 2025, the electric double bill Silent Technicians and In Her Voice won five awards at Art Fest Trema in Serbia and the company premiered INSERT COIN / PLAYER ONE, an immersive gamified experience exploring identity and control in co-production with One Dance Festival and selected for Moving Balkans Showcase 2026.

Partners and supporters include Goethe-Institut, the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria, Sofia Municipality, HRC Culinary Academy, the Singer-Zahariev Foundation, and the National Culture Fund of Bulgaria.

Karakashyan & Artists champions inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in every facet of their work. Through each project, the company aims to cultivate empathy and intimacy, inviting audiences and collaborators alike to advocate for social change through art, rooted in the power of movement and collective vision.