Ihsan Rustem

Facts

• Resident Choreographer for the NW Dance Project in Portland, Oregon USA.
• Featured choreographer for Russia’s popular TV show ‚The Bolshoi Ballet‘.
• Winner of 2012 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest
• Winner of Audience Choice Award at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers Hannover.

Kurzbeschrieb

Choreographer Ihsan Rustem was born in London, where he trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.​
Ihsan is the Resident Choreographer for the NW Dance Project in Portland, Oregon USA. He has created further works for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Istanbul State Ballet MDT, Tanz Luzerner Theater, Bern Ballet, Kazan State Opera and Ballet, Whim W’Him Seattle, Koblenz Ballet, Salt Contemporary Dance Company, Ballet Regensburg, Würzburg Ballet, National Youth Dance Company and Cinevox Junior Company. He was a featured choreographer for Russia’s popular TV show ‚The Bolshoi Ballet‘.

His work State of Matter won the 2012 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest and the Audience Choice Award at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers Hannover.
Rustem was the 2014 recipient of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s International Commissioning Project and a winner of Whim W’him’s 2015 Choreographic Shindig.

From 2000-2014 Ihsan Rustem was a dancer with Ballet Theater Munich, Introdans, State Theater Bern Ballet, Tanz Luzerner Theater and Adventures in Motion Pictures. He originated roles in creations by Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Alexander Ekman, Matthew Bourne, Stijn Celis, Patrick Delcroix, Cayetano Soto, Felix Landerer and worked with choreographers Mats Ek, Jiri Kylián, Paul Lightfoot / Sol Leon, Hans van Manen and William Forsythe, amongst others.
He is the Artistic Adviser for the Dance Art Studio Ballettschule Luzern.