An evolving framework connecting artistic creation, professional development, teaching and embodied research.
SHINUA brings together the different strands of Merav Cohen’s practice. The company, founded in 2022, establishes a platform for choreographic creation and artistic direction. The center, founded in Hof HaCarmel in 2026, extends that practice into a dedicated environment for dance, education and research.
The available professional record identifies SHINUA as the point at which Cohen’s creative, pedagogical and research activity develops together. The documentation below preserves only information supported by the current verified profile and clearly marks areas that still require expansion.
The company and the center form the documented institutional core of SHINUA.
Founded by Merav Cohen, who serves as choreographer and artistic director. The company represents the professional creation and performance dimension of the SHINUA framework.
Founded in Hof HaCarmel as the center within which Cohen’s choreographic, pedagogical and research practices can continue to develop in relation to one another.
Four documented areas describe how SHINUA relates to Cohen’s wider professional practice.
Choreographic works, performance development and the continuation of Cohen’s independent artistic language.
Works archive →Dance teaching and professional development informed by long-term experience in performer training.
Teaching archive →Movement improvisation, Butoh, body–mind work, live performance and the body understood as a living archive.
Research archive →A framework prepared to document festivals, international activity, collaborations and future institutional relationships.
International record →Cohen directed the dancers’ training workshop founded by the Association for the Promotion of Dance in Haifa.
The company was founded with Cohen as choreographer and artistic director.
The dance center was founded in Hof HaCarmel.
Within Cohen’s documented practice, SHINUA is connected to an inquiry into movement, memory, identity, interpersonal relations and transformation.
The current source set verifies the foundation dates, Cohen’s roles and the center’s location. It does not yet contain a complete institutional history, programme catalogue, team structure or official brand file.