Born in London, Ihsan Rustem studied from 1998-2000 at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, during in which time he was a member of the National Youth Dance Company. His professional performance career began in the UK with Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures; in Germany at Ballet Theater Munich (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz); Introdans in the Netherlands; and in Switzerland as a founding member of both the Stadt Theater Bern Ballett (Cathy Marston) and the Tanz Luzerner Theater. Rustem has worked with many of today’s leading choreographers including Mats Ek, Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen and Paul Lightfoot/Sol León; has originated roles in works by Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Stijn Celis, Felix Landerer, Cayetano Soto; and has performed further works by William Forsythe, amongst others. He works extensively with and regularly assists choreographer Patrick Delcroix, and since creating his first work for the Rambert School in 1999, Rustem has choreographed for numerous organizations including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2, Northwest Dance Project USA, Istanbul State Ballet MDT, Lucerne Dance Theater, BYU Contemporary Dance Theater & Theater Ballet Utah USA, Würzburg Ballet, Whim W’Him Seattle, Interdans Festival, Palucca Schule Dresden, and Holland’s ArtEz Dansacademie. Rustem regularly teaches for companies and universities internationally. He was named the winner of the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest in 2011, for his work State of Matter, which also received the Publikumspreis (Audience Choice Award) at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover, Germany. Rustem was the 2014 winner of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s International Commissioning Project and also Whim Whim’s Choreographic Shindig, Seattle USA, in 2015.
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Ihsan Rustem choreographed Reminiscence with and for students of the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden.