ihsan
rustem.
choreography
"A Veritable powerhouse"
seattle times
about.
Choreographer Ihsan Rustem was born in London, where he trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
Ihsan is Artistic Director of the Swiss dance company Cie. La Ronde, founded in 2020 with choreographer Cathy Marston, and the Resident Choreographer for the NW Dance Project in Portland, Oregon USA, where this season he will revive 'Yidam' - which return to its Portland home after appearing in the repertoire of the Bern Ballet, Ballett Augsburg, Ballett Cottbus, Codarts and at the Bolshoi - and create his fourteenth work for the company, Piaf.
Further collaborations include the Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Sao Paulo City Ballet, National Ballet of Chile, Ballet Moscow, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 2, Istanbul State Ballet MDT, Tanz Luzerner Theater, Bern Ballet, Konzert Theater St Gallen, Whim W'Him Seattle, Sacramento Ballet, Ballet Edmonton Canada, Junior Ballet Antwerp, Ballare Carmel, Ballett Augsburg, Thüringer Staatsballett, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Tanztheater, Kazan State Opera and Ballet, Koblenz Ballet, Ballet Regensburg, Würzburg Ballet, Siberian State Ballet, Salt Contemporary Dance USA, Repertory Dance Theater Utah, Staatstheater Cottbus, Arts Umbrella Dance Company Vancouver, Moving Arts Cincinnati, National Youth Dance Company, Palucca Hochschule Dresden, Codarts, ZHdK, Tanzwerk101, Taipei National University of the Arts and the Rambert School. He was a featured choreographer for Russia's popular TV show 'The Bolshoi Ballet'.
Nederlands Dans Theater named Ihsan as one of their Up & Coming Choreographers for the 2018/19 season.
His work for the NW Dance Project has been recognised with numerous accolades. State of Matter won the 2012 Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest as well as the Public Prize at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers Hannover, and Carmen received Dance Magazine's 2017 Readers' Choice Award for Best Collaboration. Rustem was also the 2014 recipient of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's International Commissioning Project.
Rustem is the former Director of the Ballettschule Luzern and in 2021 he joined the jury of the prestigious Prix de Lausanne. He has been a jury member for Concorso Internazionale di Danza Città di Rieti and the Dance World Cup Finals in Braga Portugal.
From 2000-2014 Ihsan Rustem was a dancer with the 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, Cathy Marston and worked with choreographers Mats Ek, Jiri Kylián, Paul Lightfoot / Sol Leon, Hans van Manen and William Forsythe, amongst others.
He is the former Artistic Director of the Dance Art Studio Ballettschule Luzern.
Ihsan lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
Further info
2024 / 2025
Ballett Zurich, Switzerland
NW Dance Project, USA
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Canada
Post: Ballet, USA
Landestheater Innsbruck, Austria
Ballett Augsburg, Germany
Ballett Ulm, Germany
Theater Bremehaven, Germany
Tanz Akademie Zurich
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CONTACT.
For further information about the work of Ihsan Rustem please contact
Assis Carreiro, MBE
Artist Management
+44(0)7879415882
Photo credits - Ida Zenna, Linda Zhengova (courtesy of NDT), Bamberg Fine Art Photography, Christopher Peddecord, Blaine Covert, Jim Lykins, Todd Rosenberg