Arkadi Zaides is celebrated for his theatre and dance works that combine forensic, documentary and choreographic practices. In “The Cloud”, he focuses on one of humanity’s greatest disasters, the reactor accident in Chernobyl. Zaides himself grew up on what is now the border between Belarus and Ukraine, in one of the areas that suffered the worst radioactive contamination. As a result of the reactor accident, his family left the Soviet Union. Even today, the accident and the toxic cloud that spread across Europe are beyond human comprehension. It is precisely here that Zaides sees a connection to the present, to the far-reaching dangers and possibilities of new, difficult-to-grasp technologies that are fuelled by masses of data stored in a cloud. This cloud itself, in the form of an artificial intelligence programmed specifically for this piece, influences the events on stage anew every evening in unpredictable ways. A captivating and intense performance in which the past, facts and fake news are caught up in a ghostly vortex.
Infos
Age: recommended from 16 years
Duration: 65 min.
Spoken language: English
Use of stroboscope
German premiere
Mousonturm co-production
05.12., 04 Upm KI-Workshop
Accessibility
Accessibility of Location
Sponsors and Supporters
Choreography and direction: Arkadi Zaides
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobricic
AI development and sound: Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos
Cinematography: Artur Castro Freire
Performers: Misha Demoustier, Arkadi Zaides
Light: Jan Mergaert
Technical direction: Etienne Exbrayat
Executive producer: laGeste (BE)
Administration and production: Simge Gücük / Institut des Croisements
Funder and (co)producers: Co-produced by Montpellier Danse (FR), Charleroi Danse (BE), Maison de la Danse (FR), Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm (DE), CAMPO (BE) Residency support: PACT Zollverein (DE), Orbita | Spellbound National Production Center for Dance (IT), Dialoghi / Villa Manin, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia (IT). Initial research conducted within the framework of SoundImageCulture (SIC) supported by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and VAF – Vlaams Audiovisueel Fund. With the support of TMU New York (USA), The Ministry of Culture of France / Directorate General for Artistic Creation (FR), City of Ghent, Flemish Authorities and the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter measure through Flanders Tax Shelter (BE). A residency program as part of A.R.T. research program at La Comédie de Valence, CDN (FR).
Supported within the framework of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture as part of All In - Theater von allen für alle and by Goethe Institut München. With friendly support of Freunde und Förderer des Mousonturm e.V.
Hinweis zu sensorischen Reizen
- Einsatz von Stroboskop
- stellenweise laut, flackerndes Licht
Biography Arkadi Zaides
Arkadi Zaides is an Israeli independent choreographer and visual artist of Belorussian origin, currently living in France. In Israel, he performed in several companies such as the Batsheva Dance Company and the Yasmeen Godder Dance Group before embarking on an independent career in 2004. He obtained a master's degree at the AHK Academy of Theater and Dance in Amsterdam (NL). He is currently obtaining his joint practice-based PhD degree at the Antwerp University, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Ghent University and KASK/School of Arts (HoGent). He is a member of CORPoREAL research group at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and a member of S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) in the Ghent University. His performances and installations have been presented in numerous dance and theatre festivals, museums, and galleries across Europe, North and South America, and Asia. Over the years he has curated projects such as New Dance Project (2010-2011) with choreographer Anat Danieli, Moves Without Borders (2012-2015) in cooperation with Goethe Institute Tel Aviv, and Violence of Inscriptions (2015-2018) with the scholar, curator, and dramaturge Sandra Noeth. The latter gathered artists, thinkers, and human-rights activists to negotiate the role of the body in producing, maintaining, legitimising, representing, and aestheticizing structural violence. He is a recipient of numerous prizes, among them a prize for demonstrating engagement in human-rights issues, awarded to Zaides by The Emile Zola Chair for Interdisciplinary Human Rights Dialogue (IL).