Arkadi Zaides / Institut des Croisements

The Cloud

Multimedial Performance

28. Juni 2025, 21:00

29. Juni 2025, 19:00

+ Followed by a discussion in English

“This is one of the best world premieres of the 44th Montpellier Danse Festival. ... Absolutely fascinating, moving story.” Agnès Izrine, Danser canal historique, 22.06.2024

Arkadi Zaides is acclaimed for his works that combine forensic, documentary and choreographic practice. In ‘The Cloud’, he unites the still inconceivable disaster of Chernobyl and its fatal cloud with the cloud of new Artificial Intelligence whose future effects appear as unforeseeable and uncontrollable as reactor technology did in the past. Zaides presents a compelling and intense performance, in which past and present, facts and fake news are caught up in an alarming vortex.

TEAM

Choreography, Direction: Arkadi Zaides

Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić

AI Development and Sound Design: Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos

Camera Operator: Artur Castro Freire

Performers: Misha Demoustier, Arkadi Zaides, Axel Chemla-Romeu-Santos

Lighting Design: Jan Mergaert

Technical Director: Etienne Exbrayat

Technicians on tour: Pierre-Olivier Boulant, Stéphane Leclercq

Administrator and Producer: Simge Gücük / Institut des Croisements

Executive Producer: laGeste

A co-production by Montpellier Danse, Maison de la Danse, Lyon, Charleroi Danse, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main.

Residency supported by CAMPO, Gent, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Orbita | Spellbound, Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza, Rom, Dialoghi / Residenze delle arti performative a Villa Manin, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine.

Initial research was conducted as part of SoundImageCulture – SIC funded by the Föderation Wallonie-Brüssel and the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds

With support from: Trust of Mutual Understanding (TMU), New York, Ministère de la Culture de la France / DGCA, Frankreich, Stadt Gent, Flanders Tax Shelter, Belgien, A.R.T. / Comédie de Valence.

Funded as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture as part of the series All In – Theatre by Everyone for Everyone and the Goethe Institut, Munich.