Arkadi Zaides / Institut des Croisements // The Cloud

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Arkadi Zaides / Institut des Croisements
The Cloud
Multimedia performance

June 28, 2025, 21:00

June 29, 2025, 19:00
+ Followed by a discussion in English // 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 celebrated for his work between forensic, documentary and choreographic practice. In his work "The Cloud", he brings together the still incomprehensible Chernobyl disaster and its deadly "cloud" with the cloud of new artificial intelligence, whose future effects seem just as unpredictable and uncontrollable as the reactor technology was at the time. Zaides presents a captivating and intense performance in which past and present, facts and fake news become entangled in an unsettling vortex.

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.

GOOD TO KNOW // GOOD TO KNOW

• Play length: 65 minutes // Duration: 65 minutes
• Language: English with German translation via smartglasses // Language: English with translation into German via smartglasses
• Recommended age: 16 and over // Recommended ages: 16 and over
• A stroboscope is used during the performance // A stroboscope is used during the performance
• All information on accessibility can be found at www.impulsefestival.de/barrierefreiheit //
  All information on accessibility can be found at www.impulsefestival.de/en/accessibility
• Box Office opens one hour before the performance begins // The box office opens one hour before the performance begins

IMPULSE FESTIVAL FOR PERFORMANCE, THEATER & DANCE

On three long festival weekends - one each in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf - outstanding independent productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be presented. This showcase will be supplemented by positions on the relationship between East and West Germany as part of a "Post-West" focus as well as views from and on the host region of NRW.

We are looking forward to our first joint festival season!

During three long festival weekends - one each in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf - outstanding productions from the independent theater scene from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be presented. This showcase will be complemented by positions on the relationship between East and West Germany as part of a 'Post-West' focus as well as views from and on the host region of NRW.

We look forward to our first festival season with you!

LOCATION // VENUE

TanzFaktur
Siegburger Straße 233w
50679 Cologne