A physical and vocal duet exploring the violence and tenderness of a couple in the present moment and place by internationally-renowned interdisciplinary artists Stav Marin and Neta Weiner.
Cut. Loose is a performance that delves into the nuances of relationships and power dynamics across various domains, including gender, militarism, popular culture, and politics. The production explores different forms of communication, such as masculine and feminine language, body language, and speech language. Cut. Loose occurs in three dimensions -words, movement, and sound. The critical element in this work is the knife, as an immediate means of communication, similar to word usage. A square arena is a ground for battles that are sometimes a joint practice, sometimes an act of intimacy, and sometimes a fight to the death. The audience experiences the rounds of matches at point-blank range as witnesses, critics, and reluctant partners. The performers move between situations that force them to deal with worlds related to opposing forces of text and movement.
About Stav Marin and Neta Weiner:
Stav Marin, choreographer, dancer, and performer, and Neta Weiner, musician, actor, and director, are independent artists based in Jaffa who create work jointly and individually as well as with various stage artists and musicians.
Stav Marin is recognized with the prestigious Ministry of Culture Award. She served as the Artistic Director of the Intimadance Festival in Tel Aviv and has worked on numerous dance and theater productions globally.
Neta Weiner is the founder, lead singer, and accordionist of System Ali, a multilingual Jewish-Arab Hip-Hop project. Weiner is also the artistic director of the Beit System Ali social educational movement.
Their joint productions are heavily based on both language and physicality. “Cut. Loose” premiered at the Acre Festival and won an Israel Festival Prize and the “Stage Language” Israel Fringe Theater Award (2017). This work explores intimate relationships and the balance of power, examining separately and integrated mother tongues – male and female language, verbal and non-verbal.
This program is presented in partnership by The Neighborhood and Albi.
Albi is a new fund, institute and lab that is supporting cultural efforts to establish paradigm-shifting public narratives by and about Israelis and Palestinians. To this end it will support institutions within Israel-Palestine that fund cultural creatives, provide direct funding to artists and culture-makers, build up and out the ecosystem of cultural change initiatives in the region, and cultivate partnerships that bring existing diaspora programs into relationship with their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts.
