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Sandflight

Ingri Fiksdal, Jonas Corell Petersen (Norway)

Sand Flight is an outdoor performance that invites audiences into a speculative future where human history is buried, scattered, and reimagined through sand. At the heart of the project is a vast man-made sand dune serving as both stage and symbol — a living archive of the past and a raw canvas for the future.

Exploring the fragility of our environments and the shifting relationship between urban landscapes and nature, Sand Flight imagines a future where cities dissolve into sand. Eight performers occupy the dune in an evocative choreography that merges body and terrain — crawling, climbing, collapsing, and reforming into shifting constellations that echo ancient rituals and post-human futures. The sand becomes an active element of the performance, blurring the boundaries between body, landscape, and time.

Accompanied by a visceral soundscape ranging 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.

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ABOUT ARTISTS

Ingri Fiksdal is an Oslo-based choreographer and artistic researcher with a PhD from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her work explores affect, posthumanism, and speculative choreography, examining how bodies, gender, species, ethnicity, knowledge, and history intersect. Combining theory and practice, she develops performances that challenge dominant perspectives and power structures. From 2020–2024, she was affiliated with the CoFUTURES research group at the University of Oslo, focusing on global futurisms beyond anglophone traditions. Her work has been presented internationally at festivals and institutions including Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Palais de Tokyo, MCA Chicago, Tanzhaus NRW, and Steirischer Herbst.

Jonas Corell Petersen is a Danish-born director, playwright, and artist based in Norway, educated at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. His performances have toured widely across Europe and beyond, including at Staatstheater Stuttgart, Toneelmakerij, Nottingham Playhouse, and MCA Chicago. Resident director at the National Theatre in Oslo from 2015–2018, his work explores community, freedom, deep history, and the relationship between humans and nature. Known for collaborative and music-driven live performances, he has received several awards, including the European Fast Forward Award and the Norwegian Hedda Award. Their previous collaboration, *State* (2016), toured internationally until 2021.