Ihsan Rustem

In 2014 he left the theatre to focus his attention to choreography.

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

Ihsan 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 Competition for Choreographers in Hannover (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 and the Audience Choice Award ('Publikumspreis') at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers in Hannover

Ihsan Rustem was a student at the Thomas Tallis School in his hometown of London before commencing 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 the «Tanz Luzerner Theater»,.

Ihsan Rustem (born 1982, London, England) is an award winning British choreographer living in Switzerland