Kader Belarbi

• Born in 1962.
  Studies: Paris Opera Dance School, 1975-1980.

  Company: Paris Opera Ballet since 1980, sujet in 1985, premier danseur in 1989, étoile since 1989.

  Nijinsky prize in 1989.

  Premieres at the Paris Opera:

  • Fantasia Semplice (Bagouet)- 1986, World premiere.
  • Lecon de ténèbres (Marin)- 1987, World premiere.
  • Four last lieder (Van Dantzig)
  • Magnificat (Neumeier)- 1987, World premiere.
  • Sinfonietta (Kylian)- 1989
  • Le Jeune homme et la mort ( Petit )- 1990
  • Speaking in Tongues (Taylor)- 1990
  • Manon (MacMillan)- 1990
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins)- 1991
  • Dances at a gathering (Robbins)- 1991
  • Le Rendez-vous ( Petit )- 1992
  • Attentat poétique (Larrieu)- 1992, World premiere.
  • Selim (Kelemenis)- 1995, World premiere.
  • IXth Symphony (Béjart)- 1996
  • Fall River Legend (De Mille)- 1996
  • Eja Mater (Grand-Maître)- 1997, world premiere
  • Signes (Carolyn Carlson)- 1997, world premiere
  • Rhapsody in Blue (Odile Duboc)- 1998, world premiere
  • Pas/.parts (William Forsythe)- 1999, world premiere
  • Réversibilité (Michel Kelemenis)- 1999, world premiere

  
  

  He also premiered La Valse Triste ou le retour des cygnes for Roland Petit in 1992.

  And among his best roles:

  Quasimodo and Frollo in Petit's Notre-Dame de Paris, Petit's Camera Obscura, Le Loup and Carmen , Pétrouchka ( Fokine ), the faun in Afternoon of a faun ( Nijinski ), the miller in Le Tricorne ( Massine ), the Prodigal Son , the 1st movement of Palais de Cristal ( Balanchine ), In the Night (Robbins), Aunis (Jacques Garnier), Giselle (Mats Ek), In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated (Forsythe)...

  His favorite partners are: Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Fanny Gaida, Carole Arbo...

  
  

  In the season 1995-96, he danced (as far as I know):

  Romeo and Juliet (as Tybalt and maybe as Romeo), La Bayadère (as Solor), The Prodigal Son (as the Son), Allegro Brillante, The Four Seasons, Giselle (Mats Ek's version), Le Loup (as the Wolf), maybe Camera Obscura (Roland Petit- as Alex), IXth Symphony (Béjart).

  
  

  In the season 1996-97, he danced (uncomplete list):
  Notre-Dame de Paris (Quasimodo), Aureole, Le Jeune homme et la mort, Fall River Legend, Eja Mater, Signes.
  

  In the season 1997-98, he danced (uncomplete list):
  La Symphonie Fantastique, Afternoon of a faun, Vaslaw, Giselle, Petrouchka, Romeo and Juliet, L'histoire de Manon.

  In the season 1998-99, he danced/will dance (uncomplete list):
  Mats Ek's Giselle, Rhapsody in blue, La Bayadère , Neumeier's Sylvia, In the night.

  In the season 1999-2000, he danced/will dance (uncomplete list):
  Le Concours, .

  He was filmed in:

  Cinderella (Nureyev- dancing in the corps de ballet, around 1986), Les Noces (Nijinska- as the Bridegroom, in 1990), Le Tricorne {The Three-Cornered Hat} (Massine- as the Miller, around 1992), Aunis (Garnier).