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"Colombia Dances, Too" by Dawn Lille, New York Times Journal .........."Nejla Yatkin, the second soloist, with her long torso,
limbs and black hair, was a fascinating study in evolving shapes and
a true mixture of her Turkish background and German and American training.
In one voluminous rise from floor to standing she made superb use of
the long black tutu-like skirt she wore. A few days later she performed
“Echoes of Hope” in the main theater. Inspired by the poetry
of Rainer Maria Rilke, this impressive work to music by Sheila Chundra
and Jurgen Knieper, had a stunning beginning, with Yatkin sitting stage
center, her body wrapped in white and her bare rippling back facing
the audience. Following Rilke’s concept of the child as a stream
that becomes a river, a torrent, a sea, this full evening work showed
the child in pigtails creatively using a jump rope, as an adult at work
and, finally as an old woman. Choreographically Yatkin used the entire
stage as she created her luminous images, framed in dramatic clarity
and passion."..... |