Simon Regourd

Simon Regourd joined the Norwegian National Ballet in 2020 after performing with the NNB 2 for a year and a half. 

He has performed principal roles in Balanchine’s Diamonds, Emeralds, and Divertimento no. 15 as well as Prince Siegfried in the 2nd act of Makarova’s Swan Lake. 

In addition, Regourd has danced the roles of the Lilac Fairy and the Gold Fairy in Spuck’s Sleeping Beauty, Espada in Nureyev’s Don Quixote, three gents in MacMillan’s Manon, the lead flower couple and the Spanish couple in Boyadijev’s The Nutcracker as well as Pas d’Action in Makarova’s La Bayadère.  

He has also performed in various modern ballets such as Kylián’s Gods and Dogs, Petite Mort, Bella Figura, Sleepless and Symphony of Psalms,  Mats Ek’s A sort of ... and ... and Brahms, Naharin’s Secus, and Ekman’s Cacti and A Swan Lake. 

French, Regourd began dancing at the age of eight. He joined the VM Ballet School in Toulouse at the age of 13 and was accepted into the Royal Ballet School in London at the age of 16. Performance highlights before graduating include Page’s Larina Waltz, MacMillan’s Concerto, a cavalier in Aurora’s Wedding in Anthony Dowell's adaptation of Sleeping Beauty and Johann Sebastian Bach in Duato’s Multiplicity – Forms of Silence and Emptiness. He won gold during both the international dance competition in Biarritz in 2015 and the Chausson d’or competition in Paris in 2014.