Performing Arts Creators
Stav - Choreographer, Curator and Performer / Neta - Musician, Curator and Performer
Stav Marin & Neta Weiner
Touring performance works - Mejinik (2019) // Cut.Loose (2017)
Music performance - Neta Weiner
Teaching - course proposals for discussion
Neta Weiner, director, actor, and musician, and Stav Marin, choreographer, dancer, and performer, are independent artists who create work jointly and individually with various stage artists and musicians. They are lecturers in the Theatre, Dance, and Performance department at Tufts University and serve as guest scholars at the Schusterman Center at Brandeis University.
Neta Weiner is the founder, lead singer, and accordionist of System Ali, a multilingual Palestinian-Jewish Hip-Hop project. Weiner is also the artistic director of the Beit System Ali social educational movement. He has created several critically acclaimed and award-winning stage works that have been produced for festivals and significant theaters worldwide. Weiner has appeared in several Israeli films and television shows as an actor. As a musician, he wrote the soundtrack for the acclaimed TV teen series "Madrasa” (school in Arabic). Last year, Weiner released his second solo album, "Pinui Binui," written in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and English. Additionally, he has been practicing martial arts for over 20 years and is a licensed teacher of Wing Tsun Kung Fu.
As a guest scholar at the Schusterman Center at Brandeis University, Weiner develops his work in the deconstruction and reconstruction of language through multiple artistic mediums, including music, spoken word, dance, martial arts, and theatre, with a focus on the power of performance to feed the imagination and to create socio-political transformation and collaboration. This work is inspired by and rooted in the context of the culturally and linguistically diverse urban environment of Jaffa. This place informs much of his artistic and academic inquiry.
Stav Marin has received the prestigious Ministry of Culture Award. She was the Artistic Director of the Intimadance Festival in Tel Aviv and has collaborated with leading choreographers, dance companies, and artists worldwide. Her recent work, Tsena Urena, premiered at the Curtains Up Festival 2022. It explores themes of tradition and motherhood through Yiddish and Hasidic dance. Alongside her creative practice, Marin is a dedicated mentor and instructor. She integrates movement research into her teaching and is a certified yoga instructor.
As a guest scholar at the Schusterman Center at Brandeis University, Marin expands her artistic inquiry into academic research, exploring the intersections of verbal, oral, and bodily expression. Her work examines gender dynamics and subject formation in Hebrew contexts, representations of the female body in Hebrew culture, and how trauma and knowledge are transmitted through transgenerational memory and physical modes of understanding.
Both Weiner and Marin have extensive experience in teaching and group facilitation. They run artistic workshops and courses at various higher learning institutions, such as universities, professional art schools, dance and theater companies, and unique arts programs for youth, training performance artists.
Marin and Weiner have collaborated through various art, education, and activism platforms in the past decade. They have shared the stage in countless shows worldwide and led community social campaigns and educational programs.
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 the mother tongues – male and female language, verbal and non-verbal. "Mejinik" (2019), which examines sibling relationships through physical, verbal, and vocal study, won the Best Play and Best Director Golden Hedgehog Awards for Independent Theatre.
