Laurent Guilbaud

Laurent hails from Clermont-Ferrand, France. He trained at the École de danse de l’Opéra national de Paris and the Conservatoire in Avignon. In 1997, he joined Ballet national de Lorraine in Nancy, moving to the Ballet national de Marseille a year later. Having danced with the ballet company of Staatsoper unter den Linden in Berlin (2000-2004), he became a member of the Stuttgart Ballet, where he was promoted to Demi -Soloist in the 2009/10 season. He was in the cast for the world premieres Hamlet (Kevin O'Day, 2008), Bravo Charlie (Marco Goecke, 2009) and Letters of Others (Bridget Breiner, 2010), among others. For the 2010/11 season, he moved to the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, where he danced as a soloist in roles such as the guard in Manon (Kenneth MacMillan), Hilarion in Giselle (David Dawson) and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (Stijn Celis), as well as in newly created roles such as Morold in David Dawson's Tristan + Isolde (2015). In the 2017/18 season, he danced as a guest soloist the role of Francesco in a production of Gerhard Bohner’s Die Folterungen der Beatrice Cenci atSaarländischen Staatstheater. Since obtaining a dance teaching diploma in Paris in 2016, Laurent Guilbaud has been working as a ballet master, and from 2019 to 2025 he was on-staff at the English National Ballet in London. As a balletmaster, he was also guesting at das Ballett Basel, the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, Ballet National de Bordeaux, Aterbaletto and Rambert Dance. He joined Bayerisches Staatsballet as ballet master starting with the 2025/26 season.

(Information as of September 2025)