Who is Nejla Y. Yatkin?
Named as Dance Magazine's Top 25 to Watch in 2005, award-winning and internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer, Nejla Y. Yatkin graduated with her masters in Dance and Choreography from Die Etage - the Performing Arts Academy in Berlin, Germany.
She is currently based in Washington, DC pursuing her solo career: dancing, choreographing and giving workshops at international and national festivals. Since the fall of 2001, she is a Professor of Dance at the University of Maryland - College Park. Nejla has performed in the US (e.g., New York, Washington, DC, Denver, and Los Angeles), Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.
She has been awarded numerous grants to create and perform from the D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts, the University of Maryland, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Her work has been commissioned and presented at Dance Place (D.C.), Lincoln Center and the Joyce Theater (NY), the Kennedy Center (D.C.) and she was awarded a Latin American tour for her solo work from the National Performance Network as part of the Performing Americas Project. For these efforts, Nejla has received numerous accolades.
For example, recently she was the recipient of the 20th Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist; she is a three-time recipient of the Metro D.C. Dance Award for her work as well as the Artist Fellowship Grant from the D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities (a federal agency of the National Endowment for the Arts). At the moment, Nejla is touring her newest work entitled De/Reconstructing Mata Hari, which premiered in November 2005 to rave reviews.
This work was co-commissioned by Dance Place, the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Department, the National Performance Network, the Reston Center Stage as well as D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
What is NY2 Dance?
NY2 Dance is the name given  to Nejla Y. Yatkin's vision:
1) to explore the topics of identity, transformation, migration and multiculturalism;
2) to create works that reflect the complexity of human existence, that tap the essence of what is common within all humanity and to embrace spirituality as a guiding force, a point of communication as well as reflection;
3) to collaborate with other artists from various disciplines from around the world; and
4) to preserve the works of master choreographers.
Toward these ends, Nejla is in the process of synthesizing the diverse techniques that she has been exposed to throughout her life into her own style of dance, entitled MOZAIK. The name is drawn from the fact that she is constructing the technique out of the full mosaic of dance styles available within the world's cultures, combining them into a unified whole (yet, at the same time, retaining that which is unique about them). As the world moves into the current period of globalization, this synthesizing but respecting uniqueness will be the greatest challenge for human kind. Dance provides merely one realm within which this process will be undertaken. MOZAIK attempts to facilitate communication, exploration and understanding in this area.
What Do They Say About Nejla Y. Yatkin?
"Stunning" and "Innovative in both form and content" - Washington Post
"Somewhere between narration and abstraction" and "with considerable formal beauty"
- New York Times
"Dazzling" - Village Voice
New York Art Times Journal
"Indelible Imagery," "Creative," "Sensual" and "Shrewd" - Dance Magazine
"Luxurious" - Dance View Times
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