Julio Bocca:
Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca (born March 6, 1967) is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018, he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administered by SODRE, the country’s broadcasting and cultural authority.
Bocca has been called one of the most famous Argentine dancers ever.
Eleonora Cassano:
Eleonora Cassano (born January 5, 1965, in Boedo, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine ballet dancer and teacher. She is known for being the dancing partner of Julio Bocca since 1989.
Cassano studied at the Teatro Colón’s Advanced Arts Institute and began to work at the Teresa Carreño Foundation of Venezuela. In 1996, she started her career in the musical theatre with the plays La Cassano en el Maipo and Cassano dancing. Over the following years, she would continue dancing in other musicals such as La Duarte, where she played Evita and Cinderella Tango Club.
In 2000, she participated in the international Millennium Day event, dancing in Ushuaia with Bocca and the Ballet Argentino in a performance broadcast to the whole world.
She also participated as a guest judge 2012 in the reality dance competition Bailando por un Sueño in “ShowMatch”, hosted by Marcelo Tinelli.
Source: Wikipedia
Playboy:
Eleonora Cassano was surprised when, after having dazzled with her dance at the Teatro Colón and the most prestigious stages in the world alongside the first dancer Julio Bocca, she decided to do a music hall show at the Maipo and strip naked for the cover of Playboy magazine.
When Playboy asked her to make a production of her with her great friend Julio Bocca, she thought it was a joke. With her slim physique as a dancer at the Teatro Colón, she felt very far from the vedettes and actresses who appeared on the covers of the Argentine edition of the famous magazine.
The first to convince her to say yes to her proposal, which she had laughed at because she considered “total madness,” was her husband. Sergio Albertoni was the man she fell in love with on the beach. To be with her, he left his position as a chemist in a hospital until he became a producer and then the director of the Maipo Theater. Afterwards, she talked long with her mother, who proudly walked around with the magazine.
The production was carried out in New York by photographer Jack Mitchell and producer Renata Schussheim. The dancers filled all the magazine pages with meticulous dance images, which can still be seen in paintings in different cities worldwide.
Source: January 5, 2023, 09:51 a.m.
https://tn.com.ar/show/famosos/2023/01/05/eleonora-cassano-cumple-58-anos-el-dia-que-se-desnudo-para-la-tapa-de-playboy- next-to-julio-bocca/
