Leaving Chicago convinced German choreographer Nejla Yatkin that she needed to be making art for Chicago. While traveling the globe for a year-long project, Yatkin got a taste of how the rest of the world perceives her hometown—negatively—and returned on a mission to showcase the city’s beauty.
Dancing With the Garden of the Phoenix takes viewers all over the grounds, and this participatory, immersive element is an essential aspect of Yatkin’s work, which seeks to change the viewer’s relationship with his or her environment:
