Kader Belarbi (born 1962) is a French ballet

dancer Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoi ...

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

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 ''

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'' ( principal) by Rudolf Nureyev in 1989. Since 2012, he has been Director of Dance at the Toulouse Capitol Theatre, heading the Capitol Ballet. 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 ''

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''. In February 2023 he was fired from the Capitol Theatre’s director position for managerial deficiencie

Choreographies

; Paris National Opera Ballet * 1991: ''Giselle et Willy'' * 1997: ''Salle des pas perdus'' * 1998: ''les Saltimbanques'' * 2002: ''Hurlevent'' * 2008: ''Formeries'' ; Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, 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: ''

'' * 2016: ''Mur-Mur''

References

Dance Review: ''Hurlevent''; Choreography by Kader Belarbi; by Patricia Boccadoro, Culture Kiosque, Paris, 22 April 2002
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External links

* * Kader Belarbi * Toulouse Capitol Theatre {{DEFAULTSORT:Belarbi, Kader French male ballet dancers Paris Opera Ballet étoiles Knights of the Legion of Honour Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1962 births Living people