Cuban-American Octavio Campos is a performance artist, director, 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. A Miami native, he has roots in classical music, composition and modern dance. After attending the University of Miami for music merchandising, he went on to study dance and composition at the State University of New York at Purchase. He continued his studies at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Folkwang Tanzstudio of Pina Bausch, and the Lincoln Center Director's Lab in New York City. 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 Solei, 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. Currently he is a choreographer and performer with Circ X, an interactive burlesque performance troupe and as a professor at 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.

."I am a choreographer, director and creative surgeon, making cuts inside of social issues, global metaphor’s and life’s ironies. The body - collective and individual, is my special territory and I work deep within it, making incisions where communal consciousness is formed.
My exploratory surgery is created by suturing dance, theater, music, circus, visual arts and science. Combining these resources I approach my subject matter, (sometimes the artist, sometimes the audience) by allowing my specimens to participate in the creation of the work. The instruments used for this procedure are in- depth movement analysis, associative theater technique, improvisation dramaturgy and choreography, motivated by a series of subversive questions provoked by extreme social behavior. My physical examination of these realities become like plastic surgery finding provocative beauty in disturbingly ugly things.

I compose using the research of my choreographic diagnosis preparing an engaging multidisciplinary theater experience to create a language that is guttural, instinctual and controversial. My choreographic treatment of these bodies and phenomenon, express my acute fear of the world we live in. My hybrid dance theater works are a direct response to the world’s staged sensuality and political corruption, as well as the self-destructive practices engendered by the cult of the perfect body. "