In a future-Toronto, an immense sand dune appears under the Gardiner Expressway, encroaching on the concrete columns that support the busy highway above. As the city heats up and our wind patterns change, desert-like formations materialize and move throughout parks and public spaces with regularity, creating new landmarks. Under the shade of the highway, this particular sand dune becomes a place of sanctuary in the city.

Sand Flight explored our changing relationship to the urban world due to global warming. Developed in response to the rapid heating of our urban centres, and long-standing rituals in Scandinavian cultures including the sun-worshipping dances of the Bronze age, this new performance piece by Ingri Fiksdal and Jonas Corell Petersen (Oslo, Norway) imagined a speculative mythology for climates-to-come, where shade-worshipping becomes a new tradition. Eight dancers and a large choir navigated around the newly formed sand dune, exploring the tension between honouring our infrastructure and fighting our new nature.