Julio Bocca Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Julio Bocca began his dance training with his mother at the age of four.
He studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon where his teachers included Gloria Kazda, Jose Pares, Ninel Jultyeva, Karemina Moreno and Luis Aguilar. During that time, he danced with the Caracas Ballet Company, performing, among other roles, the title role in Le Spectre de la Rose.
In 1983, he joined the Ballet del Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro as a principal dancer, and in the same year, appeared with the ballet company at the Colon Theatre and with the International Ballet of Caracas. In May, 1985, he won the Gold Medal at the Fifth International Ballet Competition in Moscow. He has toured the former U.S.S.R., appearing with the ballet company in Novosibirsk, where he danced the Prince in The Nutcracker and Basil in Don Quixote, and with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, again dancing in Don Quixote.
Mr. Bocca joined American Ballet Theatre as a Principal Dancer in 1986. His roles with the Company include Solor in the full-length La Bayad?re, the Duet from Concerto Six Twenty-Two, Basilio in Don Quixote, Albrecht in Giselle, Des Grieux in Manon, the pas de deux Other Dances, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty, James in La Sylphide, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and leading roles in Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, Etudes, and Theme and Variations. Mr. Bocca created the leading role in Brief Fling