Sand Flight / Sandflugt (2025)
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About:
A new outdoor site-specific performance on a 6m constructed sand dune, with eight dancers and a choir of up to 50 singers
Sand Flight is a large-scale performance work that invites audiences to experience a speculative future where human history is buried, scattered, and reimagined through sand. At the heart of the project is a vast manmade sand dune, serving as both a stage and a symbol: a living archive of the past and a raw canvas for the future.
Eight performers move across the dune in an evocative choreography that merges body and terrain. They crawl, climb, collapse, and reform — forming shifting constellations that echo both ancient rituals and post-human futures. The sand becomes an active element in the performance, erasing borders between body, landscape, and time.
Accompanied by a visceral soundscape — from deep tectonic rumbles to ethereal choral voices — Sand Flight bridges geological time and human emotion. It is a meditation on memory, loss, transformation, and the resilience of matter.
Credits:
Concept, choreography, direction and text: Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell Petersen
Costume Designer : David Gehrt
Composer, Sound designer: Lasse Marhaug
Composer, choir sections: Gaute Tønder
Originally Co-Developed and Performed By : Sudesh Adhana and Pernille Holden, with Camil Bellefleur, Brayden Cairns, Milina “Fletch” Fletcher, Rakeem Hardy, Megumi Kokuba, and Elizabeth Yip
Choir: VIVA Singers Toronto
Producer for The Bentway: Alex Rand
Producer for Fiksdal dans stiftelse: Ingri Fiksdal
Distribution for Fiksdal dans stiftelse: Nicole Schuchardt
Production Manager for The Bentway : Jeremy Forsyth
Associate Producer & Stage Manager for The Bentway: Layne Hinton
Technical Provider: Quest AV
With special thanks to: Anna Gallagher-Ross, Ontario Trucking & Disposal, Fort York National Historic Site
Photos: Hans Ravn, Marlowe Porter
Commissioned by : The Bentway
Co-Produced by : The Bentway and Fiksdal dans stiftelse
Presented in partnership with : Toronto Dance Theatre
Supported by: Nordisk Kulturfond & Performing Arts Hub Norway
With funding from: Arts Council Norway
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