Four years later in 1952, he was promoted to Ballet Soloist by recommendation of Dame Ninette de Valois and in 1953 he left Zagreb for Paris on a Franco-Yugoslav Scholarship.
After completing his scholarship, he began dancing in small cabarets, music halls and working as an extra in movie production in order to pay for his studies.
In New York he studied contemporary dance techniques under Jose Limon and Marhe Graham.
In 1985, he choreographed Pastoral - 6th Symphony of Beethoven - world premiére, for the ballet company Ballet Teatro Guaíra, in the city of Curitiba, state of Paraná, in Brazil, which was also performed in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
[10] (Premiere At Theatre Sarah Bernard 1959) Dance, Choreography and Leading Male Role