Marcela
Goicochea

Benois de la Danse nominee

Argentinean ballet dancer. At the age of 13 won Olga Ferri advance training courses' scholarship. Later she entered the Superior Institut of Arts at the Theatre Colon. Then she improved her skills in Cuba.

In 1998 she joined the corps de Ballet of Santiago. In 1990 she became the Prima Ballerina and she danced the leading role in Romeo and Juliet in Stuttgart. In 1996 she was invited to the Gala del Mercosur in San Paulo, Brazil.

Her repertoire is vast, among other parties it includes the leading roles in Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, La Fille Mal Gardee.

In 2001 she got Premio Altazor as the Best Balerina, and was on the tour along Italy and Argentina with Maximiliano Guerra and Mercosur Ballet. In May 2003 she was invited by the First Lady of Bolivia to participate in a Charity Gala in this country.