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 companys 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 Belarbis 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 In February 2023 he was fired from the Capitol Theatres director position for managerial deficiencies Source Article Kader Belarbi from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30