Additional Resources
Artist's Official Website: http://www.ny2dance.com
Millennium Stage Home Page
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NEJLA YATKIN
About the Artist
Nejla Y. Yatkin is a 2008 Princess Grace Choreography fellow, was named by Dance Magazine as one of "Top 25 to Watch in 2005" and "Outstanding Emerging Artist" by the D.C. Mayor's Arts Award Committee 2006. This award-winning and internationally acclaimed choreographer is originally from Berlin, Germany. Ms. Yatkin is currently commuting between New York and Washington, DC pursuing her solo career: dancing, choreographing and giving workshops at international and national festivals. Ms. Yatkin has performed her solo work in over 20 countries. She has been awarded numerous grants to create and perform from Arts International, the National Performance Network, Kennedy Center and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. To date, Ms. Yatkin has received five awards from the Metro D.C. Dance Awards. Recently, she choreographed for Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Washington Ballet, the Darpana Performing Group in India as well as the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. For the last 7 years she has also been a Professor of Dance at the University of Maryland. In July 2008, she started a new position as Artist in Residence for the Film, TV and Theatre Department of the University of Notre Dame.
Past Performances
October 5, 2009
With the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaching, the renowned choreographer presents Wallstories, which reflects on how physical and political boundaries play an important role in our lives.
March 8, 2006
Acclaimed choreographer and dancer Nejla Y. Yatkin explores the topics of identity, transformation, migration, and multiculturalism through her artistic vision dubbed NY2 Dance.
November 11, 2003
Nejla Yatkin, Berlin-born dancer and choreographer, brings a group of Washington D.C.-area dancers and jazz musicians together for her multi-media work, Mosaic.
December 27, 2001
An Evening of Hip Hop, Ballet, and Modern Dance featuring Rennie Harris Pure Movement, Dance Theater of Harlem principals Kellye Gordon Saunders and Donald Williams, as well as Kristofer Storey and Nejla Yatkin.
