Freitag, 09 Oktober, 2026 - 19:30

Cut.Loose | the decade show

Stav Marin
Neta Weiner

10 years to

CUT.LOOSE

a physical and vocal duet

Doors: 19:30

start: 20:00

tickets: 10-15 sliding scale, at door only

With knives, words and bodies, Stav Marin and Neta Weiner enter a shared arena. 

CUT.LOOSE is a physical and vocal duet in which intimacy collides with violence, tenderness with aggression, and the private language of a couple with the political language surrounding them.

Created 2016, the work emerged during a period of intense violence and bloodshed between the river and the sea. At its core was a deeply personal urgency: to understand how systemic and political violence finds its way into intimate life. What happens when the language of war, security and conflict, absorbed daily through news, public discourse and collective narratives, enters the body and the home? How does it shape the ways two people touch, speak, fight, desire and care for one another?

On stage, Marin and Weiner confront one another through movement, text, rhythm, voice and physical struggle. Their encounter shifts constantly between a duet and a duel, between attraction and resistance, vulnerability and control. Words become physical material; gestures become arguments; intimacy itself becomes an arena in which larger structures of violence, gender and power are negotiated.

CUT. LOOSE examines the relationship between systemic violence and the violence that can inhabit everyday gestures and relationships. It asks how political realities penetrate spaces commonly imagined as private, and how news, ideology and collective narratives become embodied: entering language, sexuality, gender roles and the balance of power between two people.

Over the decade since its creation, Marin and Weiner have performed CUT. LOOSE dozens of times across Europe and the US. The work has travelled through different cities, institutions, political moments and audiences, changing together with its performers and accumulating new meanings along the way. What began as an attempt to respond to a particular moment has remained insistently in the present.

Now, ten years after its creation, Marin and Weiner return to CUT. LOOSE with the unsettling feeling that the work was somehow made for precisely these days. The questions from which it emerged have not disappeared. If anything, the relationship between collective violence and intimate life, between the lived reality and the body, has become increasingly difficult to separate.

This tenth anniversary therefore marks not only the history of a performance, but a renewed encounter with it: with what has changed over ten years, with what has accumulated in the bodies performing it, and with what, disturbingly, has remained.

CUT. LOOSE returns to Berlin, here; in the present tense.