http://www.ihsanrustem.comSwiss based British Choreographer Ihsan Rustem (1982) trained at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. He danced for the National Youth Dance Company UK, Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures (UK), BallettTheater München (DE), Introdans (NL), Bern Ballet (Ch) and the Tanz Luzerner Theater (CH).Rustem has worked with many of todays leading choreographers, namely Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot / Sol Leon, Hans van Manen and Nils Christe; created ballets with Patrick Delcroix, Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Stijn Celis, Karole Armitage and danced further works by Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe and David Parsons, amongst others.Ihsan began to choreograph in 1999 at Rambert and has since created works for Hubbard Street Dance 2, (USA) Tanz Luzerner Theater (CH), National Youth Dance Company (UK), BYU Contemporary Dance, BYU Theatre Ballet, (USA), Istanbul State Ballet MDT (TY), Würzburg Ballet (DE), ArtEz Dansacademie Arnhem and the Palucca Schule Dresden.In 2011 Ihsan won both the Audience Choice Award ('Publikumspreis'​) at the 25th International Competition for Choreographers Hannover and the Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest 2011.Rustem is the 2014 recipient of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's 'International Commissioning Project'. He was awarded the silver medal at the Fewster Cecchetti Scholarship and subsequently went on to represent the UK in the International Ballet Competition in Melbourne, where he was a finalist.