Piotr Nardelli

Piotr hails from in Kraków, Poland. He completed his training at the National Ballet School in Warsaw and got his first on-staff position as a dancer at the Teatr Wielki in the Polish capital. After further engagements in Marseille and Stockholm, he became a member of Maurice Béjart's ballet du XXe siècle in Brussels in 1973, where he participated in the creations Golestan, Pli selon Pli, and Pétrouchka, among others. In mid-1975, Béjart entrusted him with the task of staging Boléro at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and at the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 1979, Nardelli left the ballet du XXe siècle to open the Balletomania dance studio in Brussels together with Andrzej Ziemski. He remained associated with the Ballets du XXe siècle as a guest ballet master and became a lecturer at the Mudra Béjart school in Brussels, founded by Maurice Béjart. In the following decades, he studied many of Béjart's major works – including Pétrouchka, Gaité Parisienne, and IXe Symphonie – around the world, including at the Stuttgart Ballet, the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, the Royal Ballet in Copenhagen, the Tokyo Ballet, and the Australian Ballet in Melbourne and Sydney.