Artistic Director - Ingrid Nachstern
Credit: Tom Clark
Ingrid Nachstern was born in Dublin,Ireland of Anglo-Polish parents. She studied languages at Trinity College Dublin and worked as a translator in Dublin, Toronto,London, and Oxford. She is also a teacher of classical ballet (Royal Academy of Dance,London) and was the Artistic Director of Nachstern Ballet School from 1998-2017.
She studied ballet as a child with Muriel Catt in Dublin and later with Richard Sugarman in Toronto.
She founded her cutting-edge Night Star Dance Company in 2003 and has created 14 works for the company. Her aim is to present the audience with work which will challenge their view of the world.
She was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 2008 and a Travel Award in 2009. She visited Cathy Sharp’s Dance Ensemble in Basel Switzerland in 2009 and also Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague. Culture Ireland granted her a Travel Award, in 2011, to perform at DTW in New York.
She is the Artistic Director and Choreographer for her company.In 2014 she branched out into making films. She has now taken on the roles of Director,Script-Writer and Performer. She has collaborated on her last three films with Luca Truffarelli, the cinematographer.
She was a member of the Jury for the Brooklyn Film Festival 2020 (Experimental and Animation) which took place online and for the Ethnografilm Festival (Experimental) which will take place in Paris in April 2021. She was the Screendance Jury Member for Flatpack Festival Birmingham U.K. in 2021.She has also been a Jury Member for the Brooklyn Film Festival (Experimental Film) in 2021 and 2022
She gave a film workshop in Gothenburg,Sweden in February 2022 as part of Dansfilmfestivalen. She was a panel member in the post-screening discussion in Los Angeles,Jan 2023, for the LA Independent Women Film Awards.
PRESS
LA Indies Magazine - January 2023
Do Not Miss the Screening of LA Indie Award Winners
The Theatre Times of New York - January 2023
Art, Dance and Film of Ingrid Nachstern and Cate McNider
by Alex N. Fatouros
https://thetheatretimes.com/art-dance-and-film-of-ingrid-nachstern-and-cate-mcnider/
Trinity News - December 2020
Interview with Ingrid Nachstern
http://trinitynews.ie/2019/12/alumni-tales-from-translator-to-filmmaker/
Time Out - October 2020
Interview with Ingrid Nachstern
Universal Cinema - September 2020
Dancing in the Darkness | Review of Shoe Horn/Office
by Darida Rose
https://universalcinema.ca/review-of-shoehorn-office/
New York Arts and Cinema - September 2020
Interview with Ingrid Nachstern
https://www.newyorkartsandcinema.com/post/ingrid-nachstern
Toronto Film Magazine - August 2020
Fall Channel Programme Winners
https://www.torontofilmmagazine.com/post/latest-winners-of-toronto-film-channel
LA Indies Magazine - August 2020
Interview with Ingrid Nachstern
Los Angeles Film Daily News - August 10 2020
By Frankie Stein
https://filmdaily.co/craft/ingrid-nachstern/
CARA Magazine Aer Lingus - April 2019
By Christie Seaver
https://issuu.com/caraaugust/docs/cara_apr_may_low_res/48
Film Ireland 2019
Womens Cinemakers Biennale 2018
By Francis L. Quettier
https://issuu.com/women-cinemakers.review/docs/special.edition/4
Loie screendance magazine Buenos Aires Argentina - Interview 2018
By María José Rubín
Light Moves Returns | Film Ireland - Article 2018
'...award winning director/choreographer Ingrid Nachstern..'
http://filmireland.net/2018/10/10/light-moves-returns-2/
Ingrid Nachstern in Conversation - Interview - 2018
By Dance Ireland
https://www.danceireland.ie/whats-on/blog/ingrid-nachstern-in-conversation/
Ballet show marks the end of an era - Feature - 2017
By Jennifer Reddin
http://www.newsfour.ie/2017/06/ballet-show-marks-the-end-of-an-era/
Intriguing Ingrid - Interview-2016
By Jenny Reddin
www.newsfour.ie/2016/02/intruiguing-ingrid/
Angry and articulate, dance made big, bold statements in 2016 - December 2016
By Michael Seaver
Another Major Film Award - April 2016
By Jennifer Reddin
http://www.newsfour.ie/2016/04/another-major-film-award-for-sandymount-dance-teacher/
'I'm just at a stage in my life when I want to try new things...' - Interview-2013
By Michael Seaver
Dance Europe Review of Dublin Dance Festival - July 2009
Reviewer: Aoife McGrath
‘Nachstern’s Watch…Es was a quirky quartet that cleverly built on geometric patterns to complement a theme of caged masculinity. Brandishing briefcases,four men in business suits seemed trapped in incessant movement cycles that included humorous references to ‘beating time’,catwalk prancing and even a parody of Swan Lake’s cygnets.’
'Fifteen days of dance end on a High Step' - Watch...Es review -2009
by Michael Seaver
www.irishtimes.com/culture/fifteen-days-of-dance-end-on-a-high-step-1.770845