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Dancer and choreographer Jeremy Nelson’s latest performance Sail, is inspired by his childhood in New Zealand; inspired by the sea, the Maori haka and rugby. Nelson performed Sail at New York’s Danspace Project, and according to The New York Times review is as well made and tasteful as any dance. But what made it stand out was Nelson’s trademark full-blown, surging movement and the vivid individuality of its five hard-dancing performers. The Danspace Project’s website quotes The Village Voice: “The choreography is opulent in texture. Now taut and keen-edged, now lush and fluid.” Jeremy Nelson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. He trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance and went on to dance for Siobhan Davies and Second Stride Dance companies in London before moving to New York in 1984.