「1-Way Mirror」

1-Way Mirror is an evening-length dance theater piece that explores themes of transmasculine identity.

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, we developed a practice of ‘doppelgangering’, an experiment of 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, we aim to explore conflict, power and dependency from a point of convergence.

“Doan, Stapleton, and Vega weave a complex tale of identity and the safety of you-as-other in this forty-five minute show. Through themes of emotional incest they glide and throw themselves around the floor, rolling and cavorting with one another through vignettes of figures: idealized younger selves craving attention, idealized present selves dancing on mirrors. It’s a creepy, unsettling piece that navigates identity and relationships in beautiful, fractured ways.” - Madeline Shuron, Thinking Dance