 Surrounded by ballet and music during his childhood, primarily due to his parents' dance school, Igor never considered becoming a professional dancer and, just like other Spanish children, he dreamed of being a football player.It was only after his parents took him to see Aram Khachaturyan's ballet "Spartacus", starring the Bolshoi's principal Vladimir Vasiliev, that he became aware of the masculinity that ballet could have, and started attending classes locally.He then moved to Madrid where he entered Victor Ullate's dance school and started formal training at the considerably late age of 13.