Contemporary dancer Nejla Yatkin’s New Year’s Eve party kicked off in Hyderabad. “I saw the Hyderabadi way of celebrating; it was fun,” she says with a laugh. The Chicago-based dancer was in the city to conduct a two-day workshop organised by city-based Feet on Earth dance studio and reminisces how she grew up watching Bollywood movies. “My parents are from Turkey and would live in Germany. Bollywood movies were big in Turkey. It was déjà vu at the New Year’s party and we were improvising the steps and dancing.”
Nejla’s has been a life of dance and her new project ‘Dancing Around the World’ has taken her across the countries. “I wanted to go around the world teaching specific works and expose dance to people who can’t afford to go to the theatre. I wanted to put it in public spaces so that people can see it, get used to it and appreciate it,” she states. Since April ’15, she has been travelling across the world. Ask her about the first city she went to and Nejla quips, “From Chicago, we went to Bogota and Medellin to Columbia. We took up two cities because have been touring the place for the past 8 years,” she says and recounts the names of all the places she has been to. “I worked for one year to plan all the places; I have the tour in my head,” she says with a smile.
Source : THE HINDU
Nejla’s has been a life of dance and her new project ‘Dancing Around the World’ has taken her across the countries. “I wanted to go around the world teaching specific works and expose dance to people who can’t afford to go to the theatre. I wanted to put it in public spaces so that people can see it, get used to it and appreciate it,” she states. Since April ’15, she has been travelling across the world. Ask her about the first city she went to and Nejla quips, “From Chicago, we went to Bogota and Medellin to Columbia. We took up two cities because have been touring the place for the past 8 years,” she says and recounts the names of all the places she has been to. “I worked for one year to plan all the places; I have the tour in my head,” she says with a smile.
Source : THE HINDU