Culture and dance contribute to the peace process

Founder and director of CONTRASEÑA PRODUCCIONS, a cultural events company, which includes the professional training school Barcelona Dance Center and the BCN City Ballet, a dance company and resident company at the Reial Cercle Artistic de Barcelona, which will be in charge of the closing show of the Barcelona World Peace Forum. She has been a dancer and choreographer and is the director of the Certamen Internacional de Danza Ciutat de Barcelona.

In 2008 she decided to create ArtsProject, an international association whose mission is to promote and disseminate dance through the creation of projects, competitions, international dance courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, shows, exhibitions, and, in general, all events that encourage the development of this art in any of its forms. She is invited annually as a jury member in various international dance competitions and has been decorated with the Golden Cross awarded by the European Promotion Foundation.

Teacher and choreographer rooted in the classical ballet tradition. He studied at the Moscow State Academy and the Vienna State Opera Academy on a scholarship from the Nureyev Foundation. Throughout more than 15 years of dancing professionally for: Oregon Ballet Theatre, Volksopera Vienna, Thuringen State Ballet, Tanzkompanie Innsbruck, Theatre St.Gallen, etc., she worked with a versatile repertoire of choreographers, such as: George Balanchine, J. Robbins, Jiri Kylian, Robert Wilson, Philip Taylor, Nils Christie, Jiri Pokorny, Chang Ho Shin, Minako Seki, Natalia Horecna, Marco Goecke and many others.

Ballet teacher, Escuela Nacional de Ballet “Fernando Alonso”, Havana, Cuba. Graduated from the National Ballet School of Cuba and holds a degree in Communication from the University of Havana. 

He has taught Ballet, Pointe, Repertoire, Pas de Deux, Character Dances and Ballet Methodology at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet “Fernando Alonso”, the Cátedra de Danza del Ballet Nacional de Cuba and is currently a teacher at the Barcelona Dance Center.

Graduated in Choreography and Dance Performance Techniques at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, Spain. She studied contemporary technique at the dance-theatre school Armar under the direction of Silvana Cardell in Buenos Aires. In Córdoba, Argentina, she studied at the dance seminar of the National University and attended the contemporary dance seminar of the San Martín Theatre directed by Emilia Montagnoli. In recent years, she has given courses, seminars, workshops and talks in different schools in Cordoba, Carlos Paz (Argentina) and Barcelona. She has participated in conferences on dance theory, the last one for the postgraduate centre of the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. As a choreographer, she has composed several pieces individually and collectively for different groups in Argentina.

Director of the Julio Bocca Association. The Julio Bocca Foundation is one of the Argentinean non-profit institutions, pioneer in developing academic support programmes for students from all over the ARGENTINEAN REPUBLIC and LATIN AMERICA who wish to start or continue their academic development in the field of Dance or Musical Theatre. The imprint, the level of demand, the experience and the excellence to which Maestro Julio Bocca has accustomed us can be observed and verified in the level of teachers and in our staff who develop academic and social activities in our institution, allowing students to make contact with the high value of learning in excellence for more than 25 years. UNESCO Ambassador for Peace.