Alen Nsambu (he/they, b. 1998) is Finnish-Angolan choreographer and performer based in Helsinki, Finland. In 2022 they graduated from Den Danske Scenekunstskolen in Copenhagen, Denmark with a BFA degree in dance and choreography. Since graduating Nsambu has collaborated internationally with choreographers and directors such as Sonya Lindfors (FI), Marie Topp (DK), WAUHAUS (FI) and Filip Vest (DK).
Artistically Nsambu is busy with questions related to identity and the trinity of normal/neutral/natural. The use of diverse performative registers and representations as well as interdisciplinary practices are in the core of their work. Nsambu sees the stage, in its many versions, as a potential for the marginalized body to transform into something that the dominant narrative is suppressing.
Nsambu has been featured in venues such as Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Amos Rex Art Museum, The Finnish National Theater, The Watermill Center in New York, Dance House Helsinki, and the International Performing Arts Festival in Copenhagen.
Nsambu was selected to be one of the GENERATION2023 artists for the triennial exhibition featuring promising young artists curated for Amos Rex museum in Helsinki. In 2024 Nsambu was a summer resident artist at The Watermill Center in New York, under the artistic direction of Robert Wilson.
In 2025 Alen Nsambu has been selected to the Aerowaves network as a #Twenty25’ artist with their debut solo work "NEON BEIGE”.
