Julio
A FACE out of New Zealand dance history, Julio is a movement specialist. He loves the study of human form, movement and biomechanics - anything from acrobatics to mobility to dance. He enjoys taking himself from one movement state to another.
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Professional Biography
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. A polynesian cultural dancer and performer from a young age, he was instrumental in teaching and evangelising linear Salsa and Rueda de Casino in NZ in the 1990s with teaching and performance appearances at festivals and Salsa congresses all over New Zealand.
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).