Hubris
MAXINE DOYLE & La Biennale di Venezia | 2026
Costume Andi Walker · Choreographer Maxine Doyle · Associate choreographer Paul Zivkovich · Sound Design Rachael Dease · Set Design Livi Vaughan · Light Yuka Hisamatsu · Collaborators Biennale College · Dance Biennale, Venice Artistic Director Wayne McGregor · Photography Andrea Avezzù · Behind the scenes photography Andi Walker
“Where power is enacted, fragmented and ultimately dismantled.”
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‘A dance-theatre work that questions the architecture of power in the contemporary world, reconnecting with the Greek notion of hubris — arrogance, domination and excess — from which the performance takes its title. Performed by the sixteen dancers of Biennale College, the piece unfolds within a stripped-back landscape composed solely of white boards: an austere yet malleable material capable of evoking classrooms, border checkpoints, banquet halls, contested territories and fragile drifting boats.’