Julio
A FACE out of New Zealand dance history, Julio is ready to bring us some fun and spice in the Cubaton Workshop on Sunday and a fun funky beginners Rueda with Rueda Club (Adi y Julio) on Saturday. Featured on TV, stage, nationwide and congress teaching tours and in the NZ History of Dance. Winner of multiple National and Australasian championship titles across different dance forms (Latin / Swing / Modern Jive).
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Professional Biography
A FACE out of New Zealand dance history, Julio is ready to bring us some fun and spice in the Cubaton Workshop on Sunday and a fun funky beginners Rueda with Rueda Club (Adi y Julio) on Saturday. Featured on TV, stage, nationwide and congress teaching tours and in the NZ History of Dance. Winner of multiple National and Australasian championship titles across different dance forms (Latin / Swing / Modern Jive).
Julio is one of NZ's most senior exponents of Latin dance, the teacher of teachers and dancers in Auckland, and NZ's first Salsa champion.
What drives you to dance?
"I consider myself a movement specialist. I love the study of biomechanics, the human form and movement, anything from acrobatics to mobility to dance. I enjoy taking myself from one movement state to another."
Julio, a polynesian cultural dancer and performer from a young age, was instrumental in teaching and evangelising linear Salsa and Rueda de Casino in NZ in the 1990s. Teacher and practitioner of many movement forms, including fitness, acrobatics, multiple dance forms (Salsa on1 / Contra tiempo, Cuban Cha Cha, Argentine Tango Fantasia, Son / Bolero, Samba) and Therapeutics (Thai Yoga / Flying Therapeutics). Julio teaches with North Shore Latin Dance and is a core part of Rueda Club.