Berlin born Turkish choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin is featured guest artist in a shared program with Israeli dancer Talia Beck as part of the 4th annual Between the Seas Festival in New York. Between the Seas Festival is New York's only international festival dedicated to producing, presenting and promoting contemporary Mediterranean performing artists. Nejla Y. Yatkin originally from Berlin with Turkish roots, will perform her latest work entitled "What Dreams May Come" in a preview performance at the Wild Project as part of the Festival Friday July 25 at 8pm and Sunday July 27 at 8:30pm in New York.
This new solo piece is an evening length multi media dance theatre work choreographed and danced by Nejla Yatkin. After exploring large scale group project for the last 8 years, Nejla is going back to creating an intimate solo dance inspired by Turkish composers Ahmet Saygun and Kamran Ince as well as Video Design by New York based artist Enki Andrews. This new solo dance explores the spaces in between categories of oppression and freedom and identity and anonymity through movement and stillness, light and shadow, space and time.
"What Dreams May Come" was made possible in part by a grant from the Turkish Cultural Foundation (www.tcf.org)
