MIRROR

CONCEPT·CHOREOGRAPHY·TEXT

CORCO BELGIUM, 2007

Mirror is a performance inspired by Michel Foucault’s idea of the mirror as both utopia and heterotopia: a placeless virtual image that reveals visibility and a real object that anchors us inside space.

Four figures meet in a parallel world, stripped down to underwear, suspended in a fragile intimacy. A wall divides the space , a threshold they long to cross, yet cannot. Blocked, they turn toward one another: forming alliances, dependencies, projections.

As they interact, they begin to mirror each other, reflecting desire, fear, addiction, tenderness, cruelty. The arrival of someone radically different, “the other,” unsettles the fragile order. Do they welcome, degrade, exclude? Or does difference open another physics entirely?

Mirror asks what it means to see oneself through others, what reflection reveals, and what remains invisible even when we look directly.

What can we really see?