Ihsan Rustem

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Ihsan Rustem
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OccupationChoreographer
Website ihsanrustem.com

Ihsan Rustem is a British choreographer living in Switzerland

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Early career

Since 2007 Rustem has lived and worked in Switzerland, initially as a soloist with Cathy Marston's Stadttheater Bern Ballet, then at the Tanz Luzerner Theater. [1]

Choreographer

Rustem was encouraged to choreograph whilst at the Rambert School, creating 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 Choreographic Competition Hannover in Hanover, Germany, and for the 2010 Sadler's Wells Global Dance Competition, becoming a finalist in the competitions. The following year he went on to win both the 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]

He was the 2014 recipient of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's International Commissioning Project [4] and in 2017 Ihsan's production of Carmen, [5] created for the NW Dance Project, won Dance Magazine's 2017 Readers' Choice Award [6] for Best Collaboration.

Rustem is[ when? ] the Resident Choreographer for the Northwest Dance Project. [7]

He is the former Artistic Director of the Dance Art Studio Ballettschule Luzern [8] and currently serves as their Artistic Advisor.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Frontpage | Luzerner Theater". Luzernertheater.ch (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Sadler's Wells - Global Dance Contest 2011 :: Home". Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Choreographenwettbewerb - die Ballett Gesellschaft". Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Repertoire Hubbard Street Dance".
  5. ↑ "Ihsan Rustem – Choreography". Ihsan Rustem – Choreography. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "These Are The Performances Our Readers Loved The Most This Year".
  7. ↑ "NW Dance Project | Ihsan Rustem". NW Dance Project. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  8. ↑ www.ballettluzern.ch, Dance Art Studio, Genia Snihurowycz Blum. "BALLETT-LEHRER in Luzern: BALLETTSCHULE LUZERN – DANCE ART STUDIO Tanzschule Schweiz Lucerne Switzerland". www.ballettluzern.ch. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "Sadler's Wells - Global Dance Contest 2011 :: Home". Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
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