Julio Bocca

Life Biography of Julio Bocca

Julio Bocca an Argentine dancer, who for twenty years has danced on stages. He is the world's most prestigious and the most prominent dancers. It is in the process of retirement, and left the ABT (American Ballet Theatre), and will continue until December 2007, when he will say "goodbye". The great Argentine dancer Currently, Julio Bocca is the pinnacle of dance classical and contemporary. He performed with the world's most prestigious companies and with leading dancers (as Natalia Makarova, Carla Fracci, Alessandra Ferri, Cynthia Gregory, Nina Ananiashvili and Noelle Pontois). was born on March 6, 1967, in Munro, Buenos Aires (Argentina). He grew up in a middle class family. Julio Bocca started dancing at age four, his mother was Nancy who encouraged him, teaching him the first dance steps in the study that she was going. In 1974 he joined the National Dance School, and the following year he joined the Institute Art of the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires).


Julio Bocca's first teachers were José Parés, Ninel Julttyeva, Karemina Moreno, Maria Luisa de Lemos, and then perfected his technique with Gloria Kazda Black, Lidia Segni and Wilhelm Burmann. In 1980 he was part of the Chamber Ballet of the Teatro Colon. In 1982 Julio Bocca began his career as Principal Dancer at the Fundación Teresa Carreño in Venezuela, and continued at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.At 18 he won the Gold Medal at the 5th International Competition of Dance in Moscow (the largest in the world), which gave him the possibility of having an international dimension of his career. Thus, in 1986 Mikhail Barychnikov summoned him to join as Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre, where he remained until then.

In 1990, the Teatro Colón named him as its representative abroad. Also that year, Julio Bocca founded his own company "Ballet Argentino", with which travels around the world, and which on several occasions is accompanied by dancer Eleonora Cassano Argentina. This is the first foreign company that dances in the Hermitage Palace in St. Petersburg. turn Julio Bocca danced as guest artist at the Royal Ballet, the Bolshoi in Moscow, the Kirov in Leningrad, Alla Scala in Milan, the Zarzuela Madrid, the Royal Danish Ballet in Denmark, the Ballet of the Opera in Oslo, the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany, the Ballet of the Paris Opera, the Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, Mexico and the National Theatre Colon in Buenos Aires .

In many cases it presents with productions that are prepared especially for him. In his own country, where they worship, made ​​functions and outdoor festivals and football stadiums, which have attended many (between fifty and one hundred thousand). Also presented each year at Estadio Luna Park, which already has made ​​more than 93 functions. Among his production notes, "Birdy" by Jean Pierre Aviotte, "Kuarahy" by Julio Lopez, "The Consecration of the Tango" Ana M. Stekelman and "Bocca National Rock," a joint creation of Ricky Pashkus, Ines Sanguinetti, Gustavo Lesgart, Diana Marcela Szeinblum and Cricket. Over the past twenty years has received the following awards and honors: Mary Ruanova "Primus inter Pares" ( 1986), "Dancer of the Year" New York Times (1987), "Knight of the Order of Saint Martin of Tours" (1987), "Gino Tanni Award for the Arts" and "Personality of the Year" (1990), awarded in France along with other personalities like Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

In 1991 Julio Bocca won a Martin Fierro TV Argentina to the best musical performance show. He also received "King David Award" from the Casa Argentina in Jerusalem (1996) and "Dance Magazine Award" (1998). In 1997 opened his own studio-permanent seat of the Ballet Argentino, and training center, which took the lead with the assistance of Andrea Candela. In 1998 he founded, along with choreographer and director Ricky Pashkus, the School of Musical Comedy. At age 39 is in the process of withdrawal, as it reached a point where he hates having to attend daily classes in ballet or have to watch your diet to keep fit. In June this year left the ABT, but will continue to monitor the Ballet Argentino on tour until December 2007, the date when Julio Bocca will retire as a professional dancer forever.