Nejla yatkin bio

A native of Berlin, Germany, she graduated with her professional degree in Dance and Choreography from "Die Etage" a Performing Arts College in Berlin, Germany.

Nejla Y. Yatkin is a German-American choreographer.

Nejla Yatkin is a Guggenheim Fellow in choreography and a globally acclaimed dance artist, celebrated for her ability to craft emotionally resonant and.

Nejla hails from Germany and weaves multiple cultural influences into choreographic tapestries of her own design.

Nejla Y. Yatkin is a Princess Grace Choreography fellow, was named by Dance Magazine as one of "Top 25 to Watch in " and "Outstanding erging Artist".

Nejla Yatkin is a Guggenheim Fellow in choreography and a globally acclaimed dance artist, celebrated for her ability to craft emotionally resonant and.!

Nejla Y. Yatkin

German-American choreographer (born )

Nejla Y.

Yatkin is a German-American choreographer.

Career

Nejla Y. Yatkin is a Princess Grace Choreography Fellow (awarded by the Princess Grace Foundation in New York City) and an Artist in Residence at the University of Notre Dame.

In , Ms. Yatkin graduated from Die Etage a Performing Arts Conservatory in Berlin, Germany.

Yatkin has been dancing, choreographing and teaching internationally for over 30 years.

Following this, she danced as a principal with numerous companies in Germany (Fountainhead Tanz Theater, Dance Butter Tokyo and Pyro Space Ballet []) as well as the United States (Cleo Parker Robinson [] and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company []).

She was critically acclaimed for her performance Stravinsky’s Firebird as “Firebird” with the Denver Symphony under the direction of Marion Alstop and choreographed by Cleo Parker Robinson. During this time, Ms. Yatkin worked with such leading choreographers as Donald McKayle, Eleo Pomare, Anzu Furukawa, Katherine Dunham, and Ron Brown among many others.^&