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Octavio Campos

Miami born Cuban-American Octavio Campos is a performance artist, choreographer and teacher. He has been collaborating in theater, dance, music, television, film and the visual arts for the past 18 years, with over 80 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. 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 collaborated within the works of Robert Wilson, Birgitta Trommler, Jorge Guerra, Leslie Neal, Philip Glass, Bebe Miller and Vivienne Newport, among others. He was artistic director of Bolschoi Berlin, an experimental music theater company in Berlin, and co-founder of The Next Stage Miami. 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 Soleil, Bacardi, Sony, Coca Cola, L'Oreal, Virgin Atlantic Records, Donald Trump, Celine Dion, Donna Summer, the Commodores and Slick Rick. 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 Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Dade College and PS 122 NYC. Currently he is a choreographer with Circ X and the Playground Theatre and 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. Courtesy of Camposition on MOLI.com.

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