Congratulations to New York-based, New Zealand-born choreographer/performer Jeremy Nelson who has been awarded a   GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP for 2004. 8 April 2004 - see
www.gf.org

Congratulations to New York-based, New Zealand-born choreographer/performer Jeremy Nelson who has been awarded a   GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP for 2004. 8 April 2004 - see
www.gf.org
This prestigious award is annually granted to selected artists, scholars, and scientists on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

The year 2004 Fellowship winners for North America include 185 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from over 3200 applicants for awards totaling $6,912,000. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert advisors and are approved by the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

Jeremy Nelson was born in New Zealand,   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 moving 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 (Bessies) Award for outstanding performance with that
company.

He has been presenting his choreography in New York since 1994 at venues such as Danspace Project at St Mark's Church, Dance Theater Workshop and PS
122, as well as in several countries including Spain, Germany, Chile, Venezuela, Japan, Canada and England. He has been commissioned to create
works on several companies including Footnote Dance Co in 1998 and Phoenix Dance Theater in Leeds, England in 2003.

He is a member of the teaching faculty at Movement Research in New York and a guest artist in 2004 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. He has been invited to give classes to several internationally recognized companies including Anna Terese de Keersmaakerâ ‚¬ „¢s ROSAS in Brussels, Sasha Waltz Company in Berlin, and Siobhan Davies Dance Company in London. For the last eighteen years, he has been teaching classes and workshops all over the world at studios and festivals including P.A.R.T.S. School in Brussels, Escuela Nacional de Danza Clasica y
Contemporonea in Mexico, Instituto de Bellas Artes in Cuba, International Summer School of Dance in Tokyo, DansensHus in Copenhagen, and the Kalamata
Dance Festival in Greece.

Jeremy   says "I   am still reeling in shock and surprise and am very excited to receive this prestigious award.   The grant   will allow me the luxury to
concentrate on just making work over the next year, get ready for   New York performances at Danspace Project in November, and to hire a grant writer
and part-time administrator."

"I hope to return to New Zealand soon to undertake a project with NZ dancers and NZ composer David Watson (who lives here in New York but makes
regular trips to NZ, and who has created music for a couple of pieces I have done here). I very much enjoyed my last extended visit when I taught
classes in Auckland and Wellington and choreographed on Footnote. It is always enjoyable to spend time with friends and family there"

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