1-Way Mirror

Overview

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).

About the Artist

Using fantasy as a guide towards creation, Mimi Doan and Cole Stapleton have been collaborating as choreographers since 2019. [REDACTED] utilizes the fantasy of situation and circumstance, emotion and play to create dynamic worlds for their pieces.

Their work has been presented at Performance Mix Festival #38, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Center for Performance Research and at art galleries throughout New York City.

[REDACTED] has received grant support from the NYFA Queens Art Fund, NYU Artist Development Program for Dance, Foundation for Contemporary Art and has been awarded residencies at Impulstanz in Vienna, Kulturfactory in Naples and Nos En Vera in Buenos Aires.

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