Living Mirrors

Concept: Deborah Hazler
Choreography and Performance: Kate Abarbanel, Deborah Hazler

Duration: 22 minutes
Music: Antony and the Johnsons, B. Coulais
Premiere: American Dance Festival, USA, July 10, 2008

Living Mirrors is a duet about sisterhood, friendship and identitie. Initially inspired by Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas this choreography explores the multiple ways that identity shifts between two people. Two women are one, yet they are never the same.
Various forms of contact and explorations lead the two women to find their strengths and their symbiosis in a relationship based on equality, support and intimacy. The existence of the two women is only in relation to one another, even in moments of separation. Through different physical explorations, as well as childlike imagery and playfulness a world is created that demonstrates love, compassion and mutual respect.

I would like us to play together at being the same and different. You/I exchanging selves endlessly and each staying herself. Living mirrors. – Luce Irigary