Career
Katsapov grew up in Leningrad (Street St. Petersburg, Russia) until he was twenty. He studied at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and from 1993 worked at the Mikhaylovsky Theatre. In 1996 he was invited to the National Theatre in Prague by artistic director Vlastimil Harapes.
In 1997 Katsapov became a soloist of the National Theatre and since 2003 he is a principal dancer.