1-Way Mirror started with a personal question: are you still your mother’s daughter if you are no longer a woman? To embark on this disentanglement, choreographers Mimi Doan and Cole Stapleton, alongside director Sacha Vega, developed a practice of ‘doppelgangering’. Doppelgangering is an experiment in psychoanalytic introjection: the unconscious adoption of another’s characteristics. The practice involves uninterrupted durational mirroring; investigating queerness retroactively through our childhoods. The resulting scores utilize vectors, intuitive movement, and layered monologue. In a political reality defined by polarization, 1-Way Mirror explores conflict, power, and dependency from a point of convergence.

‘To study the relationship between mother and daughter is not to study the relationship between two separate, differentiated individuals, but to plunge into a network of complex ties, to attempt to untangle the strands of a double self,” (Marianne Hirsch).