The Maid

About the performance

In their performances, Louise Paolo de Venecia Gile invites audiences into a sensual gymnastics of attention—evoking a controlled psychosis driven by the migration and transformation of dance across time and place. For Toaster Performance Biennale, they present a durational performance that plays with the different codes of the maid: role-play, labour exploitation, and subverted submissiveness.

About the artist

Louise Paolo de Venecia Gile is a Filipino–Swedish dancer, performer, and choreographer based in Copenhagen. They are an alumnus of the Danish National School of Performing Arts, with a background in nursing studies, as well as a member of Dance Cooperative, an artist-run platform and studio in Copenhagen. They have performed at venues such as All all all and Dansehallerne Copenhagen, MDT in Stockholm, Sadler’s Wells in London, and Munch Museum in Oslo.

Toaster Performance Biennale

In April 2026, Toaster presents Denmark’s first international performance biennale, taking place across Den Frie and Husets Teater.

The biennale offers a current portrait of the performance field within both visual art and performing arts – and the many intersections between them – which are rapidly evolving nationally as well as internationally. The focus is state of the art: taking the temperature of the field right now.

Experience more than 20 performances, including 10 entirely new works created specifically for the biennial. The artists range from established performance practitioners to emerging talents – sometimes within the same work.

The programme encompasses works rooted in dance, text, costume, sound, light, music, and space. Performance is here and now – it is the time we live in, and the time we choose to spend together.