HISTORY
In July 2005, choreographer Octavio Campos shared the idea of Camposition with a group of 20 artists and community leaders at an informal dinner on his rooftop at his Miami Beach apartment. They established Camposition’s mission: to push the boundary between contemporary performance and activism, through live performance, interactive outreach programs and professional development trainings. Through unique performance interventions, where Camposition’s artists crash through real life, performing in unexpected places and situations, audiences glean new insight into social issues and the power of theater.

Since then Camposition Inc., received 501 (C) 3 status in October 2006 and maintains a core of 14 artists, and has presented 35 acclaimed performances, community events, and professional development activities, ultimately serving nearly 10,000 artists and audience members in South Florida.

Camposition also has established a national and international presence, beginning with performances of Luna Del Pinguino, starring Octavio Campos, presented at the Latino New Works Festival in Los Angeles, California, at the National Performance Network National Meeting in Miami Beach in 2005, and at the Movimiento de Arte y Cultura de Latino America Art Center in San Jose, California, in 2006. Camposition was featured by New York-based impresario Jeffrey Deitch of Deitch Projects live and in the film Flaming Creatures, co-directed by and starring Campos, that was shown at the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 2006. Also in 2006, Camposition made its New York debut at the $ellout Festival in Brooklyn’s Brick Theater with IPO - The Bored Room, originally commissioned by Miami Light Project, to rave reviews from the New York Theater Review and Movement Research Journal.

Camposition also cast, choreographed and provided performers for the spectacular 2007 Super Bowl pre-game show, produced by Cirque du Soleil which took place in Miami.

Camposition managed production for the New York-based burlesque venue Spiegelworld during its three month run in Miami in 2008.

Camposition also plays a leadership role in the national arts scene by participating national conferences and grant panels, such as the Americans for the Arts, Theater Comunications Group, Macdowel Colony, National Endowment for the Arts, Dance USA and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.

Camposition’s executive offices and performance studio is located in 801 Projects, the gallery/performance space in Little Havana, located in the Jose Marti Building. Camposition has an ongoing partnership with the artists at 801 Projects, and hosts performances, events, exhibits, and rehearsals for more than 100 local and visiting artists and organizations including Arts4Learning, Circ X, Cirque du Soleil, SpiegelWorld, Latin American Working Group, Cuba Puente, Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Pinecrest Players, Imagine Miami, Inkub8, Artemis, Anchor Arts Management, Florida International University, Village South, and Little Havana Partnership. At 801 Projects, Camposition has offered local artists professional development events such as IPO: Speed Dating an artist collaboration network; The Field, to promote new work by established artists; and the Subversive Cabaret, to engage community participation in the creation of new work.

Camposition has been a leader in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender performance, from solo dance theater pieces such as Blue LIVE -- the centerpiece performance of the 2006 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, reprised in Houston in 2007 -- to the full-length ensemble work The BugChasers, commissioned by Miami Dade College and the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Camposition has produced landmark performances at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, including the sold-out Upwake, starring Natasha Tsakos, for the grand opening of the Center’s Studio Theater; the sold-out Kitchen Monkey at the Arsht studio theater; the sold-out The BugChasers, and the upcoming 1,000 Homosexuals, which revisits the anti-gay campaign of Anita Bryant.

Camposition is actively engaged in the local community, hosting an annual birthday party festival for the City of Miami Imagine Miami Reborn and producing 305 LIVE, a cultural youth outreach program to expose teens to the theater, commissioned by the Arsht Center. During a residency in Boston’s Theater Offensive, Campos participated in A Street Theater Named Desire, a guerilla-style street performance that later became the model for Camposition’s ongoing Project Desire Miami, a GLBT youth initiative in collaboration with Pridelines Youth Services Inc.

Camposition has earned local and national support from organizations such as the Cultural Affairs Council of Miami Dade County, Dade Community Foundation, Miami Light Project, Miami Dade College and Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County and National Performance Network.