Kader Belarbi

Kader Belarbi (born 1962) is a French ballet dancer, choreographer and director. He spent his whole career in the Paris National Opera Ballet, between 1980 and 2008, and belongs to the company’s “Nureyev generation”, having been made an étoile (principal) by Rudolf Nureyev in 1989.

Since 2012, he has been Director of Dance at the Toulouse Capitol Theatre, heading the Capitol Ballet.

Career Belarbi’s repertoire as a dancer includes a wide range of classical as well as neoclassical and contemporary works, a number of which he premiered for prominent contemporary choreographers in Paris and as a guest artist in other companies. He himself choreographed around forty works. In the past few years, he has undertaken to revisit the academic repertoire, bringing le Corsaire to France and producing a revised version of Giselle.

On 1 February 2011, he was appointed Director of Dance at the Théâtre du Capitole. He took up his post as Director of Ballet du Capitole on 1 August 2012. He was Director of Dance at the Théâtre du Capitole from 2012 to 2023.

Choreographies Paris National Opera Ballet 1991: Giselle et Willy 1997: Salle des pas perdus 1998: les Saltimbanques 2002: Hurlevent 2008: Formeries

Grands Ballets canadiens (Montreal) 2004: les Épousés 2005: la Bête et la Belle

National Ballet of China 2007: Entrelacs

Grand Théâtre de Genève Ballet 2007: le Mandarin merveilleux

Toulouse Capitol Ballet 2010: Liens de table 2010: À nos amours 2011: la Reine morte 2012: Étranges Voisins 2013: le Corsaire 2014: Bach-Suite III 2015: Giselle 2016: Mur-Mur