PRODUCTION RESIDENCY 2020

LAB ARTIST 2019

NATURAL ENCOUNTERS 2019

ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2018

ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2017

Chicago choreographer and dancer Nejla Yatkin creates award winning and critically acclaimed dance works inspired by issues of feminism, identity, memory and history. She brings an incandescent trans-cultural perspective to her creations. Her recent dances have been traveling around the world, empowering and inspiring local communities to re-imagine themselves in public spaces anew, by incorporating an interactive participatory dance practice. She is a past 3Arts Awardee and a Princess Grace Choreography Fellow. Past works have received multiple awards from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and five Metro DC Dance Awards, Top 25 To Watch by Dance Magazine, DC Mayor’s Arts Award among many others.