Jeremy Nelson
spinet pieces	A dance piece
link	www.danceinsider.com/f109_1.html
country	USA, New Zealand
bio	Born in New Zealand, Jeremy Nelson trained at The London School of Contemporary Dance and went on to dance for The Siobhan Davies and Second Stride Dance companies in London before coming to New York in 1984. He was a dancer with The Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York from 1984-1992, returning as guest soloist in 1995. In 1991, he won a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for outstanding performance with that company. He now works as an independent choreographer, teacher and dancer. He has performed in the work of David Zambrano, Mia Lawrence and Luis Lara Malvacías, as well as in his own work. He also works with contact improviser, Kirstie Simpson in an improvisational group and performs in installation-improvisations organized by Luis Lara Malvacías. He is a member of the teaching faculty at Movement Research in New York and a guest artist at Connecticut College. In the United States, he has taught as part of the American Dance Festival, and at various universities including New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Bennington College. For the last seventeen years, he has been teaching classes and workshops all over the world at places including:  International Summer Dance School, Tokyo Tilt Spazio Danza, Milan, Italy Sasha Waltz Company, Berlin PARTS and Rosas Company, Brussells Siobhan Davies and Company, London Ballet Rambert, London London School Of Contemporary Dance, London Northern School of Dance in Leeds, England S.O.A.P. Dance, Frankfurt Espacio Alterno, Caracas, Venezuela Danza Hoy, Caracas ,Venezuela Instituto de Bellas Artes, Mexico City Instituto de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba Angels Margarit, Mudanses, Barcelona DanceForum,Lisbon The State School of Dance, Athens,Greece The Internationa Dance Festival of Kalamata, Greece DansensHus, Copenhagen Tanzwerkstatt, Munich TanzImpulse, Austria CanalDanse, Paris Companie Christiane Blaise, Grenoble, France TanzFabrik, Berlin Universidad Central de Santiago, Chile  Danza Com-UN, Bogotá, Colombia, among others. He was a Movement Research artist-in-residence in 1994. He has created works on companies such as Xoroftes in Athens, Greece, Ricochet Dance Company in London, England, Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds,England and Footnote Dance Company in New Zealand and students at the Northern School of Dance in Leeds, England; in the U.S, on the repertory company, Gotham Group and students at Connecticut College. He has shown his work in New York at Movement Research at Judson Church and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, in Philadelphia at the Painted Bride, in The First International Dance Festival at Connecticut College and at Bennington College. He has also presented four shared evenings of work with Luis Lara Malvacías: at Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church in 1995, 1996 and 2000, and at PS 122 in 1998. In 1999 he presented Morphylactic, a collaborative choreography with Luis Lara Malvacías at Dance Theater Workshop.  Outside of the U.S., he has presented and performed his work in various countries, including Venezuela, New Zealand, Sweden, England and Spain and most recently at TanzFabrik in Berlin, Studio 303 in Montreal, Tafelhalle in Nuremberg, Germany, Estación Mapocho in Santiago de Chile, Tangente in Montreal, Canada and La Porta In Barcelona.  In the fall of 2001 he participated in the project Instalacion Sur, created and directed by Luis Lara Malvacías. The project involved a tour of 3 countries in South America - Colombia, Chile and Venezuela - with a one week residency in each country, involving teaching and performing structured improvisations in an installation-environment created for the event. He presented a full evening of his own work in New York at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in October 2002 and created a new work for Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds, England for their spring 2003 season. In August 2003, he performed his work at Die Pratze Theater, in Tokyo. His studies have included techniques such as Skinner Releasing technique, Contact Improvisation and Bodymind Centering, but his principal focus over the past 17 years has been the technique of Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler; and Alexander technique for the past 5 years.