Chen Nadler (she/her) is a Helsinki-based choreographer, performer and educator. She is creating multidisciplinary works, collaborating across various art forms with people from diverse backgrounds, creating pieces for galleries, stages, site-specific venues, community and video art projects.
Chen focuses on movement as a connecting source – a connection first of all to the self, then expanding to connections with the surroundings- beings, people, natural and urban spaces, energies, spirits.
She explores the transformative potential of repetitiveness and circular motion and patterns, considering their role in her cultural background and in the possibility of energy flow and renewal. Her inspiration derives from nature, dreams, nocturnal bird sounds, and twilight's deep blue hues, combining a sense of mystery into the joy of dance. She is seeking to meet, to play, to collaborate, to search aesthetics of togetherness, blending elements of the unknown, the dramatic but full of potential relations with chaos and the magic born from shared experiences within a common landscape.
Chen has collaborated with companies in Spain, Finland, Israel, Italy, and participated in research residencies across Europe. For the past six years, she has been working together with her partner Daniel Motola, who is a sound designer, musician, and videographer. Together, they collaborate on various artistic encounters, ranging from facilitating workshops to video-art projects and social artistic improvised gatherings, building a community creative environment.
Her educational journey includes completing a professional dance program in Tel-Aviv (Maslool Dance Program), studies for B.Ed. in Social and Steiner Education (Oranim) in Haifa, and studying Steiner Education and philosophy as an exchange student in Snellman college, Helsinki.
Currently, Chen is pursuing her MA studies in Choreography at the Theatre Academy (Uniarts), Helsinki, Finland.