“Nightmare in April“ (formerly known as Taxes) - 2002

Concept: Christian Davenport and Nejla Y. Yatkin
Choreography: Nejla Y. Yatkin
Music:X-Mix D.J. Hell, Talvin Singh
Videographic Design: Lenita Willamson

Commissioned by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, this piece ventures into the mindset of an individual who is compelled by circumstance and law to wade through all aspects of their life over the past year (documenting diverse actions, placing them into neatly organized piles and drawing conclusions about who they are and what they have and have not done). The reconstruction project is simply taxing (we could not resist).

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