Chen Amor Nadler and Kadence Luella Neill invite you to reflect and participate in their research of karaoke as performance practice, choreographic tool, and space to meet another(s). local guest local ghost takes place three times throughout the course of Moving in November. The first two take place in karaoke bars themselves, and the third as part of the Choreographic Convention in Stoa’s Music Hall. However, in the frame of Choreographic Convention, they will durationally dive into how these different performance contexts feedback into each other, what kinds of choreographic revelations occurred throughout the previous two iterations, and what celebration itself means when things are so sad.
Choreographic Convention parcours 12, 14-22
Kadence Luella Neill is a dance artist currently based in Helsinki, whose work lies somewhere around the intersection of choreography, community exchange, and performance theory. Her artistic practices often explore contradiction, ecstatic states of being, the concept of “the end”, and the body as a site of political and spiritual tension. Originally from New York City, Kadence is constantly cross-referencing different contexts, dance styles, disciplines, and realities. As a former company member of Nature Theater of Oklahoma, she has performed in venues and festivals including Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Wiener Festwochen, NYU Skirball, Kampnagel, Southbank Arts Center, HAU Berlin, Epidaurus Festival, Steirischer Herbst and others. Her work has been shown at institutions such as KokoTeatteri (Helsinki), IKLECTIK (London), JACK Arts Space (NYC), and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She holds a BFA from NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing and an MA in Choreography from Uniarts Helsinki. Kadence was a 2024 danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival under mentorship of Isabel Lewis.
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