Julio Bocca
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Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca (born March 6, 1967), known professionally as Julio Bocca, is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and is currently the artistic director of Ballet Nacional Sodre, the national ballet of Uruguay.

Bocca has been called one of the most popular Argentine dancers of all time.

Born in the Munro neighborhood of the Greater Buenos Aires, he started ballet lessons at the age of four, and at the age of seven entered the National School of Dance, progressing to the Teatro Colón's Advanced Arts Institute a year later. His mother was a dance teacher who encouraged his studies.

Bocca joined the Chamber Ballet Company at the Colón Theatre in 1981. A year later, he began performing as a soloist in a production directed by Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt. In 1985, aged 18, he won the gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Moscow and was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre by Mikhail Baryshnikov, the youngest principal dancer ever hired.Though Bocca was a principal dancer, he was allowed to perform frequently as a guest artists with other companies. In 1987, he was named Dancer of the Year by the New York Times.