Cloud Cover
2022
Presented in Tellus
Analog Dance Works
The Tek Box Theater
Minneapolis, MN
May 13–15, 2022
Length: 33 minutes
One of the largest sources of uncertainty in climate change models is the degree of cloud loss. Cloud loss is an inevitable part of global warming, but the scale and speed of that loss varies between predictions due to the complexity of cloud behavior. Cloud Cover explores the different ways humans respond to indeterminate ongoing and impending catastrophe amidst industrial exploitation. The work moves through states of helplessness, resignation, personal aggression, social instability, and adaptation while also searching for ways to amplify the absurdity within the individual and communal breakdown.
Dancers
RACHEL LIEBERMAN, JAVAN MNGREZZO,
BRENNA MOSSER, and ADDIE SMITH
Lighting Design
CLAUDIA ERRICKSON
Audio editing
NORA NYGARD
Additional dancer collaborators
PAULA VASQUEZ ALZATE, LAUREN VASILAKOS, and MIO YOSHIZAKI
Commissioned by Analog Dance Works, with early development supported by the Generating Room artist residency at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts.
