“Ouroboros” by Nejla Yatkin is an evening length interactive theatrical solo dance presented in the round. The dance piece resurrects and centers the ancient healing symbol of Ouroboros through personal story telling including multiple languages – English, German, Turkish and ASL, dance (contemporary and Middle Eastern dance), original audio composition by Shamou, and song (cabaret style, sung live by Nejla).

From the moment the audience enters the space, which is set up to feel like a nomadic tent, they are greeted with rosewater and Turkish delights and taken through a journey to feel the life-affirming power of the ancient ritual of a gathering circle to dance, sing and tell stories. The solo dance takes the audience on a journey of memory, place, our current paradoxes and the cyclical and entrapping nature of time and culture.The dance theatre piece is also about the lost history and continued relevance of embodying nature in the form of the snake dance, about embodied feminine wisdoms past and present, and about our relationship to dance and language. At the end of the evening, the audience is invited to join in a dance “after party”.

Ouroboros is supported by numerous organizations. For further information, visit www.dancecomplex.org/events.