We came here to beat, to birth a present body from bodies that we never studied and from those that we never dared to imagine. We are assembling and dismantling building blocks and live matter- moving through our Hebrew mouths and the history of our female, dancing bodies. 

In the end, everything is a pulse, beaten between us, inside of us, that would stay and perhaps, through it, we could dance the future. 

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TSENA URENA is the second artistic collaboration by Stav Marin and Merav Dagan. The work continues their common research, exploring representations of the female body. Through physical and vocal work ranging from meditative mantras to rap and pop songs, they return not only to their personal and bodily history, but also to a language that Hebrew culture sought to silence and exclude from the Israeli space - Yiddish.

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Choreography:  Merav Dagan and Stav Marin

Dancers: Merav Dagan and Stav Marin

Dramaturgy and artistic advice : Neta Weiner

Costumes: Tamar Ben Cnaan

Voice instructor: Roy Hason

Lighting: Yoav Barel

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“The work "Tsena Urena", by choreographers and dancers Merav Dagan and Stav Marin, was extraordinary in its level, in its sharpness of thought, its boldness and broad and up-to-date knowledge. Superbly made, planned and meticulous. In a flow that seems free and so undramatic, the two connected and dismantled images with precision, inserting personal myths, saturated with grotesque humor, disrupting, until it was impossible not to sing a song of praise for their brilliant performance, for this talent of theirs, seasoned with a dash of smart humor, preventing over-seriousness in the way they choose to examine female representations.

... "Tsena Urena" is a fantastic work that stings like precisely injected venom. After watching there is a feeling that it can continue to reproduce within itself or also in the viewer's memory and imagination. Dagan and Marin are carrying out a revolution without bloodshed."  (Anat Zakaria- “Hamevakeret”)

 

 

"In " Tsena Urena" the two demonstrate an impressive skill in the vocal-physical research that began with their piece "Come Closer" and became even more sophisticated and in-depth, in a bare, intimate and entertaining show, in which they continue to examine female representations, this time also in words and poetry, and with an aesthetic sensitivity that yields meaningful cultural images here as well.

... Dagan and Marin replace the traditional call for women to go out and see the world through the glasses of Halacha (Jewish religious laws) with a call to go out into the world and see the female body and voice as they are, as material in the hand of the creator. Beautiful. (Ran Brown – “Haaretz”)