Chen Amor Nadler: You Are My Eyes – guest performance at the Theatre Museum in November. The performance is part of the Moving in November festival.

When	Sat 14.11.2026 at 10:00–10:45
Where	Theatre Museum
Admission	€6 / €8 / €16

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 tracesancestral knowledge through the layering of dance, gestures, narrative and its interruptions—to set thebody as an archive of many, to ponder on what echoes, or lingers, when one sees and is being seen bystrangers.

The work grew from research begun in 2023 with collaborators and friends Kadence Luella Neill, Jacqueline Aylward, Daniel Motola, João Luís and Tua Holappa.

The performance is part of Moving in November 5.–15.11.2026. As part of the festival, there will be an open Soup Talks discussion with Nadler and local host on the 7thof November at noon in Caisa.

Chen Amor Nadler – you are my eyes 
Theatre Museum: 14 November 2026 at 10 AM
Duration: approx. 45 min
Language: English

Tickets: Single tickets €6 / €8 / €16. Buy your tickets in advance from the Moving in November festival’s ticket shop.

Please note: The performance contains partial nudity and loud music. The performance includes fruit and drinks and invites audience participation with natural Henna paste.

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Credits

Choreography, performance: Chen Amor Nadler

Original music composition: João Luís

Recorded live track: “Sidi Habibi,” performed by Zohra El Fassia (original 1950s recording)

Sound design and mixing: Daniel Motola

Set design: Tua Holappa

Costumes: Chen Amor Nadler, Tua Holappa

Co-production: Moving in November

Thanks to: Kadence Neill, Jacqueline Aylward, Daniel Motola, Family close and far

Photo: Daniel Motola

In collaboration with: Theatre Museum

The work was developed during a residency at Workshop Foundation in Budapest (2025), supported by Moving in November and Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found, funded by the European Union, and as part of Dance Legacy Reset Camp, organized by Liisa Pentti +Co in Helsinki (2026).

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 Festivala nd 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).