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, plus the first pas de deux in both Mats Ek’s A sort of ... and ... and Brahms. 

Other roles include purple boy in Kylián’s Sleepless, the lead flower couple and the Spanish couple in Boyadjiev’s The Nutcracker, the Dad in both Touret/Jensen’s Faun and in Espejord’s A Tale about Swan Lake, and Pas d’Action in Makarova’s La Bayadère.  

Other repertoire include Naharin’s Secus, Ekman’s Cacti and A Swan Lake, Holmes’ Swan Lake, Harvey’s Giselle, Scarlett’s Firebird, Pite’s Light of passage, Heise’s Dido and Aeneas, Andersen’s Holberg suite, Smith’s Departures, Edmond’s Left from Write, Touret’s Wāgo, Cranko’s Onegin, Spuck’s Anna Karenina, Balanchine’s Symphony in C, Serenade and Theme and Variations.

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.