Octavio Campos
Artistic Director
Miami born Cuban-American Octavio Campos is the founding /Artistic director of Camposition.
He has been collaborating in theater, dance, music, television, film and the visual arts for the past 20 years, with over 100 professional credits. He studied dance and composition at the State University of New York at Purchase, Martha Graham School , Folkwang Schule of Pina Bausch, and the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. His work has been performed in theaters and opera houses throughout Europe, North and South America. He has collaborated within the works of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass and Vivienne Newport, among others. Campos was honored at the Berliner Theater Treffen 2001 with an honorable mention award for his choreography in Chroma and the Miami Choreographers Fellowship for 2005.He has given master classes and workshops worldwide, notably at the Florida Dance Festival, Catholic University Belgium, Centro Cultural Lima, Frankfurt Schule de Darstellender Kunst, The Theater Offensive, St. Petersburg Music Hall in Russia and the Broward Correctional Institute for Women in Florida. As a commercial artist and producer of corporate entertainment, he has worked for Cirque du Solei, Bacardi, MySPACE, Sony, Coca Cola, L'Oreal, Virgin Atlantic Records, and Donald Trump. Upon his return to Miami from an extensive performance career in Germany, Campos founded the interdisciplinary performance ensemble, Camposition, whose productions are being commissioned by the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Dade College and PS 122. Currently he is a on faculty at the New World School of the Arts, where he has served the dance, theater and music divisions since 1995 teaching his original style of dance theater technique.
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Octavio Campos
dance theater accompaniment to Derek Jarmans film BLUE (2005)
photo: Dale Stein