Science and technology are meant to improve the world. But how and where do people conduct their research best? In South-Siberia there is Akademgorodok, a science city since the late 50ies, a successful place with particle accelerators, fusion reactors, and, as of recently, Start-Ups and IT companies. What happens to a Soviet utopian dream of an ideal science city in the age of globalization – the era of migrating „high-potentials“ – the so called brain-drain?
post theater set up an A.I., an artificial intelligence, that organizes the evening and asks contemporary dancers to feed input. The audience witnesses a special experiment that fuses worlds as diverse as the USSR, Silicon Valley and Science Fiction cities.
post theater invited Maria Pyatkova to join the artistic direction for this project, as Maria is a child of Akademgorodok and grew up as a daughter of scientists, studying molecular biology before she became a choreographer and dancer.