Step into The Machine of Horizontal Dreams where progress is redefined through pleasure, cooperation, and shared imagination.

Through choreography, sound, light, video, and immersive technology, this boundary-pushing performance installation invites you to reimagine Western ideas of progress not as linear growth or individual achievement, but as collective care, cyclical time, and embodied experience.

Drawing from ecofeminist and post-humanist thought – and inspired by visionary writer and activist Adrienne Maree Brown, acclaimed artist Pepa Ubera proposes a framework where growth emerges through relationships, reflection, and radical dreaming.

Created in collaboration with a dynamic network of artists, technologists, and intergenerational community groups across the UK, The Machine of Horizontal Dreams is a richly textured environment. Whether you’re lying back in quiet thought or engaging with the sensory landscape, you’re part of an ever-evolving process that challenges traditional ideas of success and encourages a new kind of future.

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UK premiere commissioned by Sadler’s Wells with the support of Arts Council England