"Bringing Art to Life"
Mark Biocca
Ballet and modern dancer,
Choreographer and coach
Dance and GYROTONIC® instructor
Welcome to my website!
A place to see some of my work and gather just enough information about me.
But remember the real thing is always better...
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Life long passion
"I always wanted to be a performing artist". Dancing, singing, telling story and interpreting a character have been part of my life for as far back as i can remember.
Tap dancing was my first love along with musical theatre, soon i realised the importance of the classical ballet training and it's rigorous technique. I have been blessed with incredible teachers, coaches and mentors guiding me from Rome's "Centro Danza la Sylphide" to the Royal Ballet School in London and then across the world dancing for Northern ballet Theatre in the Uk, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Alberta ballet companies in Canada, The national Ballet of Portugal and State ballet of Hungary.
Whilst living in Budapest I co-founded the project internationBalLET that aims to promote ballet as a international language for everyone through performances, workshops and events.
In the spirit of collaboration I take on my new role of communicator, through my dancing and performing work but also guiding younger professionals and students as well as people who are new to the performing world.
Finally i love to deal with everything that is the care of the "body, mind and spirit", this is achieved through art but also through scientific attention to diet and exercise, recently i became a certified GYROTONIC® instructor and this has changed my life for the better, ask me all about it!
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My CV
internationBalLET
(Co-founder/Artistic director)
2016 to date
Productions:
"Passion, Love...Life" (Budapest, Abano, Rome, 2016-2017)
" Tanc Trend" (Budapest 2017)
"Budafoki Fesztival"(Budafok 2017)
"Conosciamo la danza" (Budapest 2017)
"Nuovi coreografi"(Budapest 2017)
"Vad art Kiallitas" (Budapest 2017/18)
"Stage a 4ttro" (Verona 2018)
"CulturalFusions" (Budapest 2018)
"Bekes-tarhos zene napok" (Bekes 2018)
"BalleTOday" (Rimini 2018)
Hungarian State ballet
(Budapest, Hungary)
dancer
jan 2015 - July2018
Artistic director Tamas Solymosi
Repertorie:
The sleeping beauty (Peter Wright)
Manon (Sir Kenneth macmillan)
Sarabande (Kylian)
Onegin (Cranko)
The Nutcracker ( Eagling)
Swan lake (Van Dantzig)
Spartacus, Sylvia, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew (Seregy)
Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Zakharov)
La Traviata (Venekei)
Companhia Nacional de Bailado
(Lisbon, Portugal)
dancer, assistant ballet master
2011-2015
Artistic director Louisa Taveira
Repertoire:
Romeo and Juliet (Cranko)
The Sleeping beauty (Brandsen)
Cinderella (Corder)
The Rite of Spring (Roriz)
The Nutcracker (Duarte)
Grosse fuge (Keersmaeker)
Swan lake (Duarte)
Transfigured night (Keersmaeker)
Dance bailarina dance (Andermatt)
Tempestades (Lopes graca)
Giselle (Garcia)
Du don de soi (Ribeiro)
Mozart concert arias (Keersmaeker)
Orfeo and Euridice (Roriz)
Alberta Ballet
(Calgary, Canada)
Principal dancer
2008-2011
Artistic director Jean Grand-Maitre
Repertoire:
Midsummer Night's dream (Wheeldon)
The sleeping Beauty (Peterson)
Carmen (Grand-Maitre)
The Nutcracker (Stripe)
Serenade (Balanchine)
The fiddle and the drum (Grand-Maitre)
Alice in wonderland (Stripe)
Seven deadly sins (Hattori)
Songs of a wayferer (Molnar)
Fumbling towards exctasy (Grand-Maitre)
Vigil of Angels (Grand-Maitre)
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet
(Winnipeg, Canada)
Dancer
2007-2008
Artistic director Andre' Lewis
Repertoire:
Serenade (Balanchine)
Four temperaments (Balanchine)
The Sleeping beauty (Petipa)
The Nutcracker (yardonova)
Carmen, the passion (Weinrot)
Northern Ballet Theatre
(Leeds, Uk)
July 2004-July 2007
Artistic Director David Nixon OBE
Repetorie:
Romeo and Juliet (Morricone)
Madame Butterfly (Nixon)
Christmas Carol (Gable)
A Sleeping Beauty Tale (Nixon)
Peter Pan (Nixon)
La Traviata (Paeper)
I got Rhythm (Nixon)
Dracula (Nixon)
The three Musketeers (Nixon)
Video portrait
(Performance extracts)
Choreographic and commercial work
Over the years as a dancer I have developed my skills as a choreographer and teacher by always observing and learning from some of the best artists of today. My has always been to leran from them and the tradition but bring my personality and experiences to my work. In a sense I give back what I have assimilated in a new way
