Paco Rojas

Type(s) of dance: Ballet, contemporary, jazz
Other talents: Acting, modelling
Height: 1.84
Eye color: LIGHT BROWN
Hair color: DARK BLONDE

He is a classical-contemporary dancer and choreographer with studies, among others; at the Royal Academy of Dance, Vassar College in New York, the Royal Professional Conservatory of Dance in Madrid, Center du Danse du Marais in Paris with Wayne Byars, Steps on Broadway with Wilhelm Burmann, Rafael Bonachela and Tanya Pearson in Sydney, Australia and at the Suzanne Dellal Center Ohad Naharin’s Gaga studio in Tel Aviv, Israel.

He was a member of the National Dance Company from 2004-2009 and from 2011-2013 playing various leading roles including Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Zúñiga in Carmen, The Triumph of Aphrodite and Mirois by Mark Godenn. He was the first Mexican dancer admitted as an artist in the West Australian Ballet, one of the most important companies in Asia-Pacific, directed by Maestro Ivan Cavallari where he danced, among others, the role of Don Quixote (version by Lucette Aldous after Rudolf Nureyev), The Sleeping Beauty (Version Marcia Haydeé after Petipa), Beethoven’s 7th Symphony as well as Suite No. 2, both by Uwe Scholz and Un Ballo de Jirí Kylián.

He was a guest dancer at the Sydney City Youth Ballet, performing the title role in The Nutcracker. He has danced in various Contemporary Dance companies in Mexico and abroad, including the Rosas-Govaerts ensemble, Anne Beacousin Dance Company in France and Larumbe Danza in Spain.

He has been a dance teacher at the Canberra Dance Theater and Center of Dance Development of Australia.

Since 2012 he is the author of various contemporary ballet choreographic works. In 2013 he founded Convexus, a training project and contemporary ballet company of which he is choreographer and artistic director, where he has developed 9 choreographic works to date: Proportionaurea, IDENTITY I II III, The Joy of the Evident, Ámala, El tiempo sonido no Volver, CONTRAPUNTO/Counterpoint, RUN!, “The Merry Widow” Choreographic revival for the Opera of Fine Arts, and currently The Architectural Body in exclusive collaboration for Convexus with the Mexican composer Eduardo Garcilazo.

He has collaborated with international artists such as Iratxe Ansa with whom he taught and organized the first Contemporary Ballet workshop in Mexico City and the dancer Iker Arrué who performed the choreographic montage for the first time in Mexico of IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR.

Francisco Rojas was a guest artist in residence at Fundación Casa Wabi in 2016, designed by Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando and directed by artist Bosco Sodi, where he performed an intervention on the piece by Belgian contemporary artists Michel François and Harold Ancart in the main Gallery of Casa Wabi and taught courses to children from the communities of Oaxaca.

At the end of 2016 he carried out a Choreographic Residency at the personal invitation of the principal dancer Ivan Putrov and his foundation Inspiration in Motion with two of the most important choreographers on the world scene of contemporary dance and contemporary ballet: Wayne Mc Gregor CBE Comander of the British Empire (Resident Choreographer with the Royal Ballet of London and artistic director of Studio Co. Wayne McGregor) and Rusell Maliphant (Artistic Director at Rusell Maliphant Dance Co.) to carry out an artistic residency on a personal level Mentor-Protégé at the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet in London, England.