Octavio Campos

Curriculum Vitae - Octavio Campos

EDUCATION

		Lincoln Center Directors Lab 1999 Opera/Theater

		Folkwang Schule 1989 - 1990 Dance /Theater

		Martha Graham School 1987-1989 Modern Dance/School Ensemble

		SUNY Purchase 1987-1989 BFA Dance/Composition

		University of Miami 1985-1987 Music Merchandising

		Southwest Miami High School 1985 HS Diploma

EXPERIENCE

January 2008 – Present
MIAMI THEATER CENTER
Miami/FL
Resident Artist

Duties Include: Responsible for all Choreography and movement at MTC, programming of the Sandbox Series, a new works series for the performing arts in a black box setting with an emphasis on process based work methodologies, as well as creating special events. Responsible for the daily movement and voice training of the performance ensemble, development of a professional performance training laboratory, working together with Artistic Director and Executive Director on the ideation of future programming, expansion projects.

JANUARY 2005 – PRESENT
CAMPOSITION
Miami/FL
Artistic Director

Duties Include: Presentation of events, new creations, commissioning of new work, community projects, management of 501(C)3 corporation, Chairman of the Board of Directors, professional development workshops coordinator, grant writing, fund-raising, marketing and promotions of all related projects associated with Camposition.

AUGUST 1995 – Present
New World School of the Arts
Miami/FL
Adjunct Professor

Duties Include: Teaching for college and high school programs in the following techniques:
Movement, Voice, Performance Art, Improvisation, Musical Theater Workshop, Ballet, Modern Dance, Street Theater, Composition, One-Man Show Development, Opera Laboratory, Self-Expression, Mentoring Program and Acting for Dance.
Student advisement, conferences, juries and special projects: Mentor College Senior Projects, New World Rep Ensemble Greece tour, director freshman showcase, teaching masters students at the University of Florida, coordinator Street Theater Festival Miami Beach, choreography and directing of student shows and keeping regular office hours.
Current Project: Curriculum development for the St. Petersburg Music Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. Created a Musical Theater School and a teacher training program with an international exchange component of students and teachers between St. Petersburg, Russia and Miami, Florida.

JANUARY 2003 – Present
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami Dade County
Miami/FL
Commissioned Artist

Duties Include: Teaching and creating new work for Urban Disturbance, performance troupe. Reporting to Artistic Director Justin Macdonnel, and project director Kathryn Garcia. In development of projects for the Black Box Theater namely IPO - The Board Room (2005) The BugChasers (2007), together with Miami Dade College, Kitchen Monkey together with Miami Light Project and Pulitzer Prize nominee, 1000 Homosexuals (2008), South Beach Babylon (2010) No Music in This House (2011).

JANUARY 2003 – 2005
ArtSpring Inc.
Homestead/FL
Artist Facilitator

Duties Include: Teaching Expressive Arts and dance theater techniques to incarcerated women and girls at the Broward Correctional Institution and Homestead Correctional Institution. Reporting to Metro Dade County Parks and Recreation Department to develop the Community Arts Institute, artist training, curriculum development, mentoring programs, guest artists screenings and weekly reports.

NOVEMBER 1998 – 2004
Metro Dade Parks & Recreation
Arts and Culture Division
Miami/FL
Teaching Artist/Consultant

Duties Included: Cornucopia of the Arts advisory board, booking and securing programming from 45 Performing Arts organizations from Dade County, press liaison, television interviews, master of ceremonies and curator of interdisciplinary installations. Conducted leadership workshops for parks managers in the arts, curriculum development expressive arts and gang intervention for the Embrace Foundation for girls, at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, advisor to manager of Arts and Culture Division Sheila Austin regarding Community Arts Institute, facilitating community relations and partnerships.

JANUARY 2000 – 2002
Pro Intro Productions
Frankfurt/Germany
Executive Director

Duties Included: Visual Positioning and Lifestyle Branding of Products, Budget, Proposal writing, text development, Account Executive, payroll, office management, Tour Planning, Casting, Contracts, Human Resources, Administration
Partial List of Accounts Managed:
Creative Director and Account Executive –Ferrari/Shell Europe, EMO, Hannover, Germany
Project Manager – Microsoft, Zurich, Switzerland
Creative Director and Account Executive – Merck (2 years, 4 projects), Darmstadt, German

AUGUST 1999 – 2002
StaatsTheater Darmstadt
Darmstadt/Germany
Choreographer/Dancer/Singer

Duties Included: Teaching company classes, Teachers workshops, Choreography for Opera, Theater, Dance. Working as a dancer with repertory of Philip Glass, Yoshiko Waki, Thomas Langkau. Working with new creations of Birgitta Trommler.

APRIL 1996 - 1999
Dancesation! Entertainment
Ft. Lauderdale/FL
Creative Director

Duties Include: Marketing and sales development, budget development, proposal writing, entertainment sales, booking talent, costume development and community building, Rehearsal director, original business theater conception, tour management, multi-media installation.
development school curriculum and master classes, student recruitment, scholarship programs, class schedules, personnel Schedules and time sheets, teacher recruitment and management, office/studio maintenance, organization of special studio events, teacher payroll, press releases, advertising, retail sales.

Partial List of Accounts Managed:
Management - Donna Summer Concert for Donald Trump West Palm Beach
Project Manger - Paxton Communications Launch, West Palm Beach
Creative Director - Amerijet Airlines, 20th Anniversary of the company, Ft. Lauderdale
Creative Director , Liberty Mutual, Annual Sales Meeting, Miami Beach
Choreographer - Betsey Johnson, Fashion Week `98, New York City
Project Manager - DefJam Productions, CD Release party for Slick Rick, Miami Beach

JULY 1996 - FEBRUARY 1997
The Next Stage
Miami/FL
Artistic Director/Co-Founder

Duties Included: Artistic Direction, Producer, Press liaison, non-for profit application, budget development, building maintenance, accounting, set construction, classes and workshops, space rental agreements, community building and grant writing.

AUGUST 1993 - JUNE 1995
Bolschoi Berlin
Berlin/Germany
Artistic Director

Duties Included: Artistic direction, producer of two (2) large international interdisciplinary music/theater projects, administration of two German Federal grants, reports, press liaison, artist liaison, tour coordination and implementation of an Algerian, Turkish and German symposium of new music and theater.

AUGUST 1989 – JUNE 1993
Stadtische Buhnen Munster
Munster/Germany
Dancer/Choreographer

Duties Included: Teaching company classes, teachers workshops, choreography for opera, theater, dance. working as a dancer with repertory of Philip Glass, Yoshiko Waki, Thomas Langkau. Working with new creations of Birgitta Trommler, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

		Miami Theater Center - Miami , Performance Lab

		NFAA - Young Arts, Miami, Interdisciplinary

		National Institute of Dramatic Arts, Sydney,Australia, Movement

		Academy of Arts & Minds, Coconut Grove, Modern Dance

		Inkub8, Wynwood, Performance Art

		Pridelines Youth Services, Miami, Street Theater

		Miami City Ballet School, Miami Beach, Modern Jazz

		Creative Children , Miami, Expressive Arts

		The Theater Offensive, Boston, Street Theater

		Dreeyfoos School,West Palm, Street Theater

		St. Petersburg Music Hall, Russia, Musical Theater

		Homestead Correctional, Homestead, Expressive Arts

		Embrace/ Girl Power, Miami,Dance Theater

		African Heritage Center ,Miami, Dance Theater

		Centro Cultural Lima, Peru, Performance Art

		Creative Workshops, Aventura, Movement for Actors

		Hochschule der Kunst, Frankfurt, Contemporary Performance

		Wreckio Theater Ensemble, New York, Theater Laboratory

		T. University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, EuroCrash Technique

		Staatstheater Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Dance,Improv & Voice

		Florida Dance Festival, Miami, Dance Theater Lab

		New World School of the Arts, Miami, Voice,Movement

		Dade Correctional Institute, Homestead, Expressive Arts

		Broward Correctional Institute, Ft. Lauderdale, Expressive Arts

		Athens Center , Greece, Movement & Voice

		Florida International University, Miami , Modern Dance

		University of Florida, Gainsville, Voice & Movement

		Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami , Childrens Theater

		Stadt Theater Konstanz , Germany, Dance/Theater

		Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, Germany, Modern Dance

		Stadt Theater Munster, Germany, Modern Dance

		I.A.L.S. Rome, Italy, Modern Dance

		Catholic University, Belgium, Dance/Theater

		Klapstuk, Belgium, Modern/Ballet

CHOREOGRAPHY

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2012 - 2013
New Work - dancetheater - Residency - Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC, New York
Blood Laws - dancetheater - National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney Australia
Three Sisters - Theater - Miami Theater Center - Miami. FL
Putana - dance film - Miami, FL

2011-2012
Solo fur Pina - Solo Dance Theater - Miam International Film Festival
Intention Intervention - Performance Installation - New World Symphony, Miami Beach
The Pig Show - Dance Theater - Melbourne Fringe - Revolt - Melbourne, Australia

2010 - 2011
No Music in this House- Dance Theater - Arsht Center, Miami
South Beach Babylon - Theater - Carnival Studio Theater, Miami
The Red Thread - Childrens Theater - Playground Theatre, Miami

2009 - 2010
Freedom without Walls - Performance - German Consulate, Miami & D.C.
Shadows in the Dark - Video - Sandbox, Miami
Video Mummy - Performance Incub8, Wynwood

2008-2009
1,000 Homosexuals - Theater - Arsht Center, Miami
Accelearate - Dance Theater - Florida Dance Festival, Miami
Innana - Childrens Theater - Playground Theater, Miami

2007-2008
The BugChasers - Dance Theater - Carnival Center, Miami
Alice - Childrens Theater - Playground Theater, Miami
The Vamp - Cabaret - 801 Projects, Miami

2006-2007
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Childrens Theater - Playground Theater
The Monkey Opera - Dance Opera - Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
Creation of the World - Theater - Playground Theater
Upwake IV - Dance Theater - Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
Developmentus Interruptus - Performance Pilgrimage - Downtown Miami

2005 – 2006
Upwake III - Dance Theater - Miami Light Project
IPO Scan Artist - Installation - 801 Projects/Experimental 8
IPO Flipping Unreal Estate - Theater - The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY
Flaming Creatures - Video - Deitch Projects, NY, London Gay & Lesbian FF

2004 – 2005
Bernarda Albas House - Theater - Homestead Correctional Institution
IPO : The Bored Room - Dancetheater - Here & Now 05, MLP, FDF, MPAC
Blue Live - Dance Film - Gay Lesbian Film Festival, Miami
Luna del Pinguino -Dance Theater- VH100 Black Box, Miami, Highways
As You Like It - Theater - Gerrits Theater, Miami

2003 – 2004
Assasins -Musical - Gerrits Theater, Miami
Art of the Heart -Multidisciplinary- Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Miami
Touching Outside -Dance Theater- Broward Correctional Institution
Dosinda * -Dance Theater- Florida Dance Festival, Miami
Pygocelius Papua -Theater - New Playwrights Festival NWSA

2002-2003
Hypo Theo Universal -Theater - New Playwrights Festival NWSA
The Kitchen -Theater - Gerrits Theater, Miami
Coup de Des -Dance/Theater- MAM, Miami, FL

2001-2002
Anomie - Theater - P.S. 742, Miami, FL
Der Verkaufte Braut- Opera - Staatstheater Braunschweig
The Orestia - Theater - Gerrits Theater, Miami
Patch M - Dance - Florida Dance Festival
2000-2001
Fausto - Choreography -Teatro Municipal, Lima, Peru
Chroma - Choreography - Expo 2000, Berlin Theatertreffen
Fat Peggy-s Property - Dramaturgy - TAT, Frankfurt
Die Tute des Lebens - Choreography - Mouson Turm, Frankfurt

1999- 2000
Missing Link - Sound Theater - Mouson Turm, Frankfurt
Ka und der Pavian - Opera - Staatstheater Darmstadt
Rosen - Musical Theater - Staatstheater Darmstadt
Werther - Opera - Staatstheater Darmstadt
The You Sisters - Dramaturgy - TAT, Frankfurt

1998-1999
Hair - Musical Theater - Lyric Theater, West Palm Beach
Over Faust - Dance Theater - Florida Dance Festival
4 eye & F - Dance Theater - Miami Light Project, H & N Festival
U.R. Faust - Visual Opera - Gerrits Theater, Miami, Athens
Isadora Libre - Theater/Dance - Area Stage/ Miami, HERE, New York
Fist Faust* - Dance/Theater - Colony Theater, Miami Beach
Mouthful of Birds - Dance/Theater -New World School of the Arts, Miami

FILM & TELEVISION

		Shadows in the Dark - Dancer - Adam Best, Miami, dir. Best

		Roadtrip - Tony - Tareco Pictures, Miami, dir. Bilowit

		Flaming Creatures- Lead - Honeygun Labs NYC, dir. Stupak

		Die Biester - Leader - ZDF,Germany, dir. Hattrop

		Chroma - Dancer - SWR, Germany, dir. Fritsch

		Luna Verde - Guest - TeleMiami, dir. Sanchez

		Kenneth's Freakquency - Guest - WAMI, dir. Green

		Cafe Cosmopolitan - Principal - Univision, dir.Cairo

		Extremos - Special Guest - Univision, dir.Hero

		Language of Music - Eros - Independant dir. Dowd

		Brick House - Dancer - Comodores,Music Video

		Tea Time - Butler - Fetus Production, Dir. Buroughs

		Geselschaft - Marinero - Most Films, Munich

		Sandkasten - Psychiatrist - Most Films, Munich

		Superhigh Score - Eric - Bavaria Studios, dir. Emck

COMMERCIAL

Created, Managed and Performed in Industrial Events for:

Cirque du Solei, American Express, AmeriJet, Bacardi, Betsey Johnson, Burdines, The Clevelander, Circ X, Sirrius Radio, Caesars Palace, Celene Dion, Coca Cola, Def Jam Records, Donna Summer, Ferrari, Gloria Gaynor, IBM, Liberty Mutual, Loreal, Merck, Microsoft, Miami Childrens Hospital, Pax Net, RTL, Shell, Slick Rick, Sony, The Commodores, Donald Trump, Virgin Atlantic Records, ZDF a.o…

Reel available upon request

THEATER & DANCE

		Brazzo Gitano - Performer - dir. Los Carpinteros, Miami

		Chat Noir - Performer - dir. CircX, Miami

		Fluids - Performer - dir. Tsakos, Pagani, Miami

		I am the Moon - Performer - dir. Atlas Muz, NYC, Miami

		List Hilft - Dancer - dir. Newport, Germany

		Capitalismus WOW- Performer - dir. Drei Wolken, Germany

		Missing Link - Dancer - dir. Martin, Germany

		Sandkasten - Psychiatrist - dir. Trommler, Germany

		Photographer - Dancer - dir. Trommler, Glass, Germany

		Little Prince - Lamplighter - dir. Maria, Miami

		Drummin' - Dancer - dir. Leon, Miller, Miami

		The Cure at Troy - Neoptolemus - dir. Guerra, Peru, Greece

		Medea - Jason - dir. Wellmar, Germany

		Casual Conversation - Straw Man - dir. Neal, Miami, MAM

		Seelen=Binder - Wrestler - dir. Zeyfang, Baumgarten, Berlin

		Fellini Projekt - Eros Ramazotti - dir. Langkau, Germany

		Contre-Couer - Clarinetist - dir. Van Gorp, Belgium

		Ohne Meine Kamele - Oscar - dir. Bolschoi Berlin

		Fall of Haus Usher - Twin - dir. Trommler, Glass Germany

		Antigone - Eteokles - dir. Froscher, FTM, Germany

		Mediale - Fire Dancer dir. Robert Wilson,Hamburg.

		Acts of Light - Dancer - dir. Martha Graham, NYC

		The Prodigal Son - Skin Head - dir. Edward Villela, Balanchine, Miami

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & AWARDS

		• Word Speak – National GLBTQ Youth Poetry Slam Judge 2009

		• Member - National Association for Latino Arts and Culture

		• Florida Arts Council Interdisciplinary Fellowship – 2010

		• Macdowell Colony – Interdisciplinary Arts Panel

		• Presidential Advisory Committee, National Endowment for the Arts, 2009 – Present

		• Finalist - National Dance Project 2006, New England Foundation for the Arts

		• Artist Access Award 2006

		• Panelist: Talk with your mouth full: Taking Risks 2005

		• Miami Choreographers Fellowship 2006 & 2009

		• Award Creative Capital Professional Development Program

		• Juror Illinois Arts Council for New Forms Fellowship 2005

		• 2001 Honorable Mention, Berliner Theater Treffen, for choreography

		• Recipient of numerous Community Arts Grants at County and State Levels

		• Member South Florida Composers Alliance

		• Member Artemis Performance Network

		• Member Florida Dance Association

		• Advisor Dancing Inside Out Project

		• Member Latin American Chamber of Commerce

		• Member Industry and Handels Kammer Frankfurt am Main

		• Advisor Goethe Institute Los Angeles & Lima, Peru

		• Board Member Company Vivianne Newport

		• Full scholarships, SUNY Purchase, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

		• 1994 - 2nd Place Video Dance Festival Berlin.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Choreography, Improvisation, Directing, Teaching, Driving, In-Line Skating, Accomplished Clarinetist, Video Design, Sound Design, Clowning, make-up, digital photography