Dancing Around The World-Press Release update
Monday, September 21st, 2015FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Dancing Around The World update
September 22, 2015
Media contact: Nejla Yatkin
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Bologna, Italy - Through the power of crowd funding and institutional support choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin and Video Artist Enki Andrews embarked on a year long journey around the world on April 12th, 2015. The journey will end back in the USA with a workshop and performance at Dance Place in Washington, DC in April of 2016. Dancing Around the World is a year long dance project that encourages and engages local communities in cities around the world by cultivating interdisciplinary arts and community through dance workshops. The goal is to explore and make people become aware - both intimately and broadly, of the interaction of people, movement and the environment. Compelled by the mantra: Think globally. Act locally. Enki Andrews and Nejla Y. Yatkin are traveling to communities in different international cities, and unite community members and leaders in an interdisciplinary art practice that uses dance and movement as a centerpiece to enrich the social-behavioral architectural interaction of people with their environment. They are engaging, connecting and collaborating with people, community leaders, centers, sites and the environment through collaborative dance workshops, interactivity, improvisations, conversations and dialogue.
Workshop participants are discovering community based artistic expression by coordinating motion and dance in public spaces. This project is available to a global audience to follow in a monthly Youtube video at ny2dance.com . The artist have already traveled to Bogota, Medellin, Lima, Santiago, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Pyhajarvi, Berlin, Istanbul and are now in Bologna, Italy.
In 2007 Nejla Yatkin started creating dances in Public Spaces because she felt that as an artist who was interested in freedom of movement and expression, she needed to make her art available to people from all walks of life and not just people who could afford to go to Theaters and Opera houses. The first project happened in Washington, DC. For several weeks the dancers and Nejla would go to Dupont Circle and dance there in front of the public. The reactions of the people walking by was eye opening. The second week she interviewed people who passed by the performances to get some more insight to their experience. Some of the comments were that by putting the dance in the space it altered the perception of this location.
Follow the journey here at www.ny2dance.com and watch what cities they have already engaged with below.
Dancing Around The World - Chicago
Dancing Around The World - Bogota
Dancing Around The World - Medellin
Dancing Around The World - Lima
Dancing Around The World - Santiago
Dancing Around The World - San Salvador
Dancing Around The World - TegucigalpaÂ
Dancing Around The World - Pyhajarvi
Dancing Around The World - Berlin
Dancing Around The World - Istanbul
Schedule of cities of workshops and performances of Dancing Around The World.
(Schedule is subject to change, regular updates will be made throughout the journey.)
April 12th to 18th, 2015 Bogota, Colombia with Casona de La Danza, German Embassy
April 18th, 2015- May 10th, 2015 Medellin, Colombia with Danza Concierto and the City of Medellin
May 9th- May 23rd, 2015 Lima, Peru with Vannia Ibarguen, D.A.N.Z.A Vida, Ando Danzando
May 24th- June 15th, 2015 Santiago, Chile with solo by Nejla Yatkin
June 15th-June 30th, 2015 San Salvador, El Salvador with Festival Internacional De Teatro and the American Embassy
July 3nd -AAJuly 14th, 2015 Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with Mujeres en las Artes and the American Embassy
July 25th to 28th, 2015 Pyhajarvi, Finland, with the Full Moon Dance Festival
July 28th- August 15th, 2015 Berlin, Germany with Dock 11
August 15th-August 30th, 2015ÃÂ Istanbul, Turkey with Dancentrum
August 30th to September 13th, 2015l Bologna, Italy with Festival De Danza Urbana
September 14th to October 4th, 2015 Paris, France with Rick Odums Academie de Jazz
October 4th to 20th, 2015 Tunis, Tunisia, Ballet de Tunis and the Goethe Institute
October 20th to November 3rd, 2015ÃÂ Nairobi, Kenya with the German Embassy,
November 3rd to November 24th, 2015 Antananarivo, Madagascar with Disaraga Dance and US Embassy
January 3rd- January 18th, 2016 Hyderabad, India, Feet on the Earth Studio
January 19th to February 3rd, 2016 Kochi City, Japan with Museum of Contemporary Art
February 4th to 18th, 2016 Hong Kong, China with City Contemporary Dance Company TBA
February 19th to 28th, 2016ÃÂ Manila,ÃÂ University of Philippines TBA
March 1st to March 15th, 2016 Sydney, Australia with Bangarra Dance and Goethe Institute TBA
March 16th April 4th 2016 Mazatlan, Mexico with Delfos Dance Theater
April 25th-May 5th, 2016 Washington, DC with Dance Place
This project is supported through individual donations with Hatchfund Artist Crowd fundraising campaign, in part supported by the German Embassy in Bogota, The City of Medellin, Danza Concierto in Medellin, Danza V.I.D.A, Ando Danzando, D-1, McClelland Fund in Ohio, German Embassy in Nairobi, American Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Mujeres en las Artes, Dock 11, American Embassy in Antananarivo,
