Mimi and Cole of [redacted] are so pleased to announce that their newest work 1-Way Mirror is going on tour!
1-Way Mirror will be presented at Icebox Project Space on September 27th and 28th as part of Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe.
These performances are a milestone for [redacted] as our first opportunity to tour a completed work. We are here to fundraise for this project so that we can transport our set, our selves, and our amazing team to Philly for this debut.
ABOUT 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.
1-Way Mirror premiered at 3 AM Theatre in Astoria June 6-8th, 2025. [redacted] is excited to perform an excerpt of the work at NYU’s Production Lab on 9/9/2025 and tour the full work to Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia 9/25-28/2025.
1-Way Mirror has received grant support from the NYFA Queens Arts Fund and the NYU Production Lab.
We've been so encouraged by the support we've received to make this work and the enthusiasm from audiences. Thank you for your continued support and for helping us bring this work to Philly!
ABOUT THE TEAM
Choreographers and Performers: Mimi Doan & Cole Stapleton
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
Director: Sacha Vega
Sacha Vega is an artist who collages across movement, poetics, and humor to invite focus into the ideologies that train our bodies to move. Working in concert with performers and audiences alike, she's invested in using her practice as an experimental space to test beliefs of authority, horizontal organization, and temporary utopias. She has exhibited and performed at Westbeth Gallery, Theaterlab, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Mason Gross Galleries, Baxter St x CCNY, and Java Project. She’s been an artist in residence at LEIMAY Incubator Program, Wassaic Project, KYL/D's Artist in Residence, Van Noord Van Noord, Casa Tagumerche, Stoneleaf Retreat, and ARTHA Project. She has received awards from the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant, Scarlet Arts Rx Grant for Arts in Health Research Lab, and Pig Iron's Summer Session Access to Practice Scholarship. She’s hosted workshops at Abrons Art Center, Performance Space NY, Zimmerli Museum of Art, and coLAB arts. She has a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Original Score: Slic
Slic is a singer and producer from Caracas, Venezuela living in New York. They have been a collaborating member of Company [REDACTED] since 2020. They have composed the scores for Some Land of Redemption (2022) and My Apocalypse (2023). Their first album Unbearable Heat was released in 2024.