Sand Flight / Sandflugt (2025)

























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 /TDT, Morten Lundrup
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