Famed ballet dancer Julio Bocca has been named the new director of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the OperaWire reported on 24th August.
That followed the dismissal of his predecessor Jorge Telerman by Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires. Telerman had been on the job since 2022.
The Argentinian Bocca joined the the Compañía de Ballet de Cámara del Teatro Colón in 1981. In 1985, he won the Gold Medal at the Fifth International Ballet Competition in Moscow. The following year, he joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York as Principal until his retirement in June 2006. He also danced internationally as a guest artist.