carrying body channeling dances moving with people here and not here.
In this solo-gathering, choreographer and dancer Chen Amor Nadler dives into the bubbling and chaotic sense of the in-between; a comeback of a ritual sliding into a performance where endless entertainment parties, grief, relief, and a rhythmic pelvis guide her to expose unforgettable memories and create anew—sealed with a red satin fabric and Henna paste to your hand. you are my eyes is an English translation of a saying from Chen’s Moroccan grandma Hasiba. This means that through the other, one can understand better, or be completely confused, about their own existence. What you are looking at is also you.
Drawing on the Moroccan Henna ritual, which used to be a women-only Judeo-Arab pre-wedding tradition, you are my eyes plays with ritual and social gathering that meet a contemporary performative space, suggesting that the audience and the performer form a potential, already existing collective. It traces ancestral knowledge through the layering of dance, gestures, narrative and its interruptions—to set the body as an archive of many, to ponder on what echoes, or lingers, when one sees and is being seen by strangers.
The work grew from research begun in 2023 with collaborators and friends Kadence Luella Neill, Jacqueline Aylward, Daniel Motola, João Luís, and Tua Holappa.
Chen Amor Nadler is a choreographer and dancer based in Helsinki, with transcultural and diasporic roots. In her artistic practice she loves to explore what the body can do—celebrating the knowledge carried by the individual and awakened through the collective. Her creative search engages with the dilemmas of meeting the other: the emotional, energetic, spiritual, and ethical forces that emerge from encounters. Together with collaborators, she traces what echoes across generations, moving through the intimate, the chaotic and the tender registers of dancing presence. Her embodied practice spans Western dance techniques alongside North African, Romanian, and Middle Eastern traditional, ritualistic and folk practices. Her choreographic work unfolds through various forms—from stage productions to intimate performances and community-inclusive projects to facilitating multidisciplinary jam events, video art projects, movement workshops, and social gatherings.
Her recent works include The Feast (2025), Jam&Juice (2024), and Present Party, shown at Lugar Futuro Festival, Portugal in 2024. Chen has hosted workshops at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Helsinki. She has been invited to residencies supported by Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found and Moving in November, Liisa Pentti +Co, Sosta Palmizi, Routa Company, and more. As a performer she has worked with Romeo Castellucci, Sonya Lindfors, Barak Marshall, Michal Mualem and Giannalberto de Filippis, among others. Chen holds an MA of Arts in Choreography from Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki (2025) and studied for a B.Ed. in Steiner Education and Social Education (Haifa and Helsinki, 2022).