Lahcen Zinoun (Arabic: لحسن زينون; 14 September 1944 – 16 January 2024) was a Moroccan choreographer, modern dancer, and filmmaker.

[1] Lahcen Zinoun was born on 14 September 1944,[2] in La Cité ouvrière Socica,[1] of Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca.

Afterwards, Zinoun went to Belgium because of his admiration of the dancer Maurice Béjart, with whom he eventually became a danseur étoile in the ballet of the Opéra royal de Wallonie.

[3] In 1978, with his wife Michèle Barret, also a dancer, he founded a school and a dance troupe, titled "Le Ballet-Théâtre Zinoun".

[5] He further tried to create a national troupe of traditional Moroccan dance, but the project was rejected by King Hassan II.