Hubris

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.

The set design by Livi Vaughan and the choreography of Maxine Doyle transform these simple boards into territories and vessels, sprawling tentacular environments or rafts adrift on the open sea. A stage-continent, a site of passage and crossing, where power is enacted, fragmented and ultimately dismantled.

The poetic lighting design by Yuka Hisamatsu sculpts the space with precision and intensity, casting elongated shadows that amplify the performers’ gestures.