My guest for Episode 21 is Chicago-based artist Nejla Yatkin. You can read more about her career and company at ny2dance.com.

Nejla Yatkin is an award-winning and critically acclaimed choreographer and a recent 2018 Drama Desk Award nominee, a 3Arts Award fellow and a Princess Grace Choreography recipient. She hails originally from Germany, bringing a luminous and transcultural perspective to her creations. Her focus is regularly drawn to the role that memory and history serve in constructing identity, causing and resolving conflict, and transforming cultural tensions in to deep, authentic moments of human connections.

In 1993, she graduated from Die Etage, a performing arts college in Berlin, Germany. Following this, she danced as a principal with numerous companies in Germany as well as the United States. She was critically acclaimed for her performance as “Firebird” in Stravinsky’s Firebird with the Denver Symphony choreographed by Cleo Parker Robinson.

Since 2000, she has been choreographing solo dances inspired by great female choreographers resulting in five evening-length solo works that have toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. In addition, she choreographs for her own project-based company NY2Dance and has been commissioned by many noted dance companies.

• Turkish folk dance
• Showboat
• Dance Theatre of Harlem
• Gayle McKinney
• Nana Shineflug
• Chicago Moving Company
• Butoh
• Anzu Furukawa
• Cullberg Ballet
• Batsheva Dance Company
• Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre
• American Dance Festival
• Jacob’s Pillow
• Firebird pop-ups
• Firebird
• Katrin Schnabl
• Renatus
• River North preview on RB
• Jessica Wolfrum
• Mary Wigman
• The Witch
• The Other Witch
• Weimar Republic
• Enki Andrews
• Jacob Snodgrass
• Berlin Wall
• Nel Shelby
• Where Women Don’t Dance
• What Dreams May Come
• Baryshnikov Arts Center
• Dancing Around the World
• Dancing Around the World documentary
• Jackson Park Garden of the Pheonix
• Trillium Arts – Heather Hartley and Phil Reynolds
• See Chicago Dance
• Dance Center of Columbia College
• Chicago Dancers United/Dance For Life
• UNCC – The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Ruth Page Civic Ballet
• Links Hall
• A Dance Without a Name
• Sybil Shearer/Morris Shearer Foundation