Jeremy Nelson's biography
Jeremy Nelson is a dancer/choreographer and former member of the Siobhan Davies Dancers and Second Stride Dance companies in London, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York. He has also danced in the work of Mia Lawrence, David Zambrano, Susan Rethorst, Luis Lara Malvacías, and in his own work, and with improviser Kirstie Simson. He received a New York Dance and performance “Bessie” Award for outstanding performance and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography in 2004.
He taught regularly at Movement Research in New York and over the past forty years has taught classes/workshops in over 35 countries at venues including American Dance Festival, ImPulsTanz, P.A.R.T.S., La Manufacture, the China Dancers Association, Sasha Waltz Company among others. He was Head of the Dance Education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2009 – 2015 and is presently Associate Arts Professor in The Dance Department of New York University’s Tisch School of Arts.
He has been presenting and performing his own choreography at various venues in New York and in various countries in Europe, South America and Asia, since 1994, and has been commissioned to create works on companies in Greece, New Zealand, Venezuela and UK, and on students at Connecticut College, SEAD Salzburg, Laban Center England, and the London Contemporary Dance School. For the last 9 years, he has a been collaborating with Luis A. Lara Malvacías on From A – Z, a series of highly structured improvisational duets that explore different perspectives on time, and how the the agency of dancers evolves over time. They have been performed in Amsterdam, Barcelona, at La Mama in New York, REDCAT and Electric Lodge in Los Angeles,Tictac Art Centre, and several times at Radial System in Berlin.
