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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 /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