Jean-Christophe Boclé studied ballet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and modern dance in Paris in New York at the Cunningham Studio, and in Angers at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine with Viola Farber. He studied baroque dance with Francine Lancelot. As a dancer, he performed with among others Ris et Danceries (Baroque and contemporary), Jean Pomarès, Odile Duboc, François Raffinot, and M.G.Massé. He has choreographed for the opera and the cinema. He is a notator in Kinetography Laban (Labanotation) and graded in Frederick Matthias Alexander Technique.