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Ihsan Rustem

Ihsan Rustem, dancer, was born in London in 1982.

In 1997 he joined the National Youth Dance Company before entering the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance a year later in his hometown, where he trained in all aspects of classical and modern dance. In 2000, Matthew Bourne invited Ihsan to join Adventures in Motion Pictures for the creation of Car Men which he toured throughout the UK and Europe and in the middle of this he was asked by the Cecchetti Society to represent the UK in the International Ballet Competition in Melbourne, Australia, where he was a finalist. In 2001 he moved to Munich, Germany, to the Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz where he spent the next 3 years as a member of Philip Taylor's BallettTheater Munchen, which progressed to a further 3 years in Holland where he was employed by Introdans. Whilst with the company he worked with Jiri Kylian, Mats Ek, Paul Lightfoot / Sol Leon, Patrick Delcroix, Nils Christe, Hans van Manen and danced further repertoire from David Parsons, Renato Zanella, William Forsythe and Daniel Ezralow. He then moved to the Swiss capital of Bern, becoming a soloist at the Stadttheater. With a varied repertoire, he was able to work with Hofesh Shechter, Doug Varone, Guilherme Botelho, Carole Armitage and re-visit repertoire from Jiri Kylian and Hans van Manen.

He has choreographed pieces in the company workshops of BallettTheater Munich, Introdans and the Bern Ballet as well as numerous pieces for the Rambert School. He was a guest teacher and choreographer at the ArtEz Dans Academy in Holland and had a piece taken into the repertoire of the Natonal Youth Dance Company.

He also toured to New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, Aruba, Curacao (Dutch Antilles), St, Maartin, Saba, Mexico, Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), Sofia, Lisbon and numerous tours of the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.