Julio Bocca

Topics: Argentine ballet dancers, Italian-Argentines, LGBT people from Argentina

Julio Bocca (b. March 6 1967) is one of the most important ballet dancers of the latter part of the 20th century, and probably the most important Argentine dancer of all time.

In 1990 he fulfilled his dream of creating his own ballet company; the Ballet Argentino, of which he is, as of 2005, the artistic director, and which performs regularly in theatres around the globe. Bocca often dances with the Argentine dancer Eleonora Cassano. In the year 2000 he participated in the international Millennium Day event, dancing in Ushuaia with Casano and the Ballet Argentino in a performance broadcast to the whole world.

Julio Bocca has also mixed ballet dancing with Tango; a combination that has been very well-received by the public. In 1998 he appeared in the film Tango, no me dejes nunca , which gained him a new audience. In combining ballet with tango, he has often worked with the tango choreographer Ana Maria Stekelman.