Ihsan Rustem

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


British choreographer and dancer Ihsan Rustem was born in London in 1982. He was a student at the Thomas Tallis School before he commenced his formal dance training at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, becoming a member of the National Youth Dance Company from 1997-1999. The following year, at the age of 17, Rustem was invited by Matthew Bourne to join his Adventures in Motion Pictures for the creation of ‘The Car Man’. From 2001-2004 he was a soloist with Philip Taylor’s «Ballett Theater München» (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz) before moving to the Netherlands, where he danced for three seasons as a member of «Introdans».  Since 2007 Ihsan has lived and worked in Switzerland, initially as a soloist with Cathy Marston’s «Stadttheater Bern Ballet», then at «Tanz Luzerner Theater»,[1] where he is currently employed.

Ihsan Rustem has worked with such well-known choreographers as Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot / Sol Leon, Hans van Manen and Nils Christe. He has created ballets with Karole Armitage, Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Ken Ossola, Georg Reischl and danced further works by  Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, David Parsons and Twyla Tharp, amongst others. He works extensively with and regularly assists the choreographer Patrick Delcroix.

Ihsan Rustem began his choreographic career while still a student at the Rambert School, and created more than 10 pieces for the academy. His work 'Twist of Fate', made for the Bern Ballet's 'Dance: Made in Bern' series was nominated for the 24th International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover (Germany) and for the 2010 Sadler's Wells Global Dance Competition, and Rustem became a finalist in both competitions. In 2010, Sarah Slipper invited Ihsan to Portland, Oregon in the USA, where he created 'State of Matter' for the Northwest Dance Project, a piece which in 2011 went on to win both Sadler's Wells Theatre's Global Dance Contest [2] and the Audience Choice Award ('Publikumspreis') at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover [3]

Rustem has created works for the Northwest Dance Project (Portland, OR. USA),[4] National Youth Dance Company (UK), Tanz Luzerner Theater (CH),[5] ArtEz Dansacademie Arnhem (Institute of the Arts Arnhem, Netherlands), Arnhem Mode Biennale (NL), Dance Art Studio Luzern (CH), Playground Bern (CH), Peter Williams Design for Dance (UK) and the choreographic workshops of BallettTheater Munich (DE), Introdans (NL), Dance Made in Bern (Bern Ballet, CH) and Dancemakers: Tanz Luzerner Theater (CH).

He was awarded the silver medal at the Fewster Cecchetti Scholarship and subsequently went on to represent the U.K. in the International Ballet Competition in Melbourne, where he was a finalist.

Ihsan Rustem has taught workshops and classes for the Zeynep Tanbay Dance Project (Istanbul, Turkey), Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo (Lisbon, Portugal), ArtEz Dansacademie Arnhem (Netherlands), Interdans Festival (Belgium),[6] Musical Factory (Lucerne, Switzerland) and currently teaches modern dance and ballet at the Dance Art Studio Ballettschule Luzern (Lucerne, Switzerland).[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.luzernertheater.ch
  2. ↑ http://www.globaldancecontest.com/
  3. ↑ http://www.ballettgesellschaft.de/wettbewerb_11_CW_2011.html
  4. ↑ http://www.nwdanceproject.org/repertoire.html
  5. ↑ http://www.luzernertheater.ch/en/news/choreografenpreis-fur-ihsan-rustem
  6. ↑ http://interdans.be/festival/artistic/ihsan-rustem/
  7. ↑ http://www.ballettluzern.ch/team-ballett-luzern.html


External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.