Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Julio Bocca as a Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre for 20 years until 2006. He founded Ballet Argentino in 1990 and was the Artistic Director of Ballet National Sodre in Uruguay. Bocca serves on the juries of many competitions such as Benois de la Danse and Prix de Lausanne and is now a guest coach of ballet companies. His accolades include the Gold Medal at the 1985 International Ballet Competition in Moscow, Prix Benois de la Danse in 1992, the 1998 Dance Magazine Award. In 2015, he received the Delmira Agustini Medal for his contributions to Uruguay’s arts culture and the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from France.
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