Camposition
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MIAMI BEACH, Florida
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THE BUGCHASERS -

OCTAVIO CAMPOS’ NEW MULTIMEDIA MEDITATION ON SEX, LIES, AND DEATH-WISH EROTICISM -

Co-commissioned and co-presented by Carnival Center and Miami Dade College Cultura del Lobo October 25-27 @ 8 p.m.

MIAMI, FL October X, 2007 – Having received rave reviews last season for his dance-theater drama Kitchen Monkey, Miami-based artist Octavio Campos premieres his newest work – The Bugchasers – at Carnival Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, October 25, with subsequent performances on Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27. Sensual and violent yet hilarious and heartbreaking, The Bugchasers is a dance-theater meditation on sex, lies, and death-wish eroticism co-presented and co-commissioned by Miami Dade College Cultural del Lobo and Carnival Center. Through high-intensity visuals and provocative texts, the Camposition Ensemble, directed by Campos, tells a dark story of those who would risk their lives to achieve a twisted sense of intimacy. Gay and straight, male and female--anyone could be a Bugchaser. Featuring a cast of local performers ranging in age from teens to early sixties, The Bugchasers examines “love” in contemporary culture and explores the world of Bugchasers - men who seek to become HIV positive. Through video projections, gripping choreography and in-your-face performance, Bugchasers questions whether the human need for belonging and contact has led to a new eroticism or become a monstrous force for self-annihilation.

Fulfilling Carnival Center’s mission to nurture local artists and its ongoing initiative to present cutting-edge and thought-provoking works to a vast audience.

The show is currently preparing for a world tour beginning September 2008. For bookings contact touring@camposition.org.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Octavio Campos ..."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. "

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Status:Single
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Hometown:Miami
Body type:0' 0"
Zodiac Sign:Capricorn

   Camposition's Schools
Suny College At Purchase
Purchase, NY
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Dance / Composition
Clubs: Purchase Dance Corp
 

1986 to 1989
Southwest Miami Senior High School
Miami, FL
Graduated: 1985
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: music
 

1982 to 1985

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Dance - Performance - Contemporary
hybrid theater | dance installation | performance interventions
Theatre - Drama - Teaching
physical theater, expressionism

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Camposition Inc.
Little Havana, Florida US
Founder/Artistic Director

Circ X
Miami, FLorida US
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Octavio Campos – Miami born, Cuban American choreographer, performance artist and teacher, has been creating risk taking theater since 1989. After attending SUNY Purchase and the Martha Graham School he went to Germany to work with Birgitta Trommler and studied dance theater at the Folkwang Schule of Pina Bausch. After an extensive performance and directing career in Europe collaborating within the works of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass and Vivienne Newport, he returned to Miami and founded, CAMPOSITION– a multidisciplinary ensemble dedicated to pushing the boundaries between contemporary performance and activism. He has received numerous grants, commissions and awards notably by Miami Light Project, Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, Florida Dance Festival, Miami Dade College, Teatro Municipal Lima, Klapstuk, Berliner Theater Treffen, The Bolschoi Berlin, State Theater Darmstadt and the Civic Theater Munster. He has served on the faculty of the New World School of the Arts since 1995.


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Joshananda





Jun 8 2008 8:19 AM

Querido, I was gonna close my piece with this last night but didn't, so I share it with you now. Gracias por todo!

HAPPY FIELD DAY NIGHT

a writing writer righting the right
leaving what's left to sing in my song

the day is long...til it's long gone
and so on and so I go on

this little show may blow
your mind, like sight to the blind
or slime and grime wiped
off the bong, or your behind

or whatever you're ting
fresh like spring
down and dirty, souped up
and steamed cleaned

at a gentle enough heat to leave you complete
neither red like a beet nor with cold feet

it's nice to meet you all
short and tall,
mighty and small
straight and round as a (motherfuckin') ball

live up I say
have it your way
not that bk bullshit
but from-the-heart play

and pay attention to
one another
even a stranger is more than a brother
if there's no such thing as "other"

feel yourself in space and time
give voice to your own silly rhyme
and while you're at it
awaken and align

til the sun don't shine
and you lay to rest
ya done your best

drop your shoulders and lift your chest
lower your chin and loosen the rest

energy is a most mystical treasure
and when shared can more than double the pleasure
up and down , in and out
balance is what its all about

love and hope are the purest dope
with them you'll be sure to cope

with this I bid you a pleasant ado
thanks for hanging and being you!
Christian Iles





Jun 9 2008 11:08 PM

Just a little of my work. Miss you.
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TeA





Mar 25 2008 6:39 PM

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~Yvonne~





Apr 9 2008 11:17 AM

pussy,

i wanted to let you know that we're filming at churchills "can you rock a little softer" tonight. i'm trying to help promote r&r and "c.y.r.a.l.s!" we need TRUE FANS to come and support!!!!

tell your friends, repost my bulletin! thanks!

TeA





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Apr 25 2008 8:59 PM

Wishing you the greatest of success with your new production. You never cease to amaze me. Miss you. Christian "Dr.
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Apr 26 2008 11:31 AM

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Feb 25 2008 12:19 PM

hey how is your day going? I really love your page!!!
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Mar 4 2008 8:33 PM

It was great seeing you last week!
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Feb 23 2008 12:04 PM

I miss Octi...
-Meee.
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Feb 19 2008 10:50 PM

It was so nice to hear from you. If I don't make it to FL first, you get yourself to Austin! Your Blue show inspired...Photobucket
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Feb 20 2008 3:53 PM

I miss you already!! Sorry I did not get to say a proper goodbye. My departure was sudden and unexpected. Thank you for the kind words in your letter. Please get in touch with me when you head this way!! Much love! XOXO
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Feb 9 2008 12:02 PM

come perform in LA again sometime
ANATOMY RIOT on Monday night
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Feb 12 2008 7:34 PM


aphrodite & eros
happy valentine's day

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Feb 13 2008 10:49 AM

it's been a while since we spoke. i just wanted to pass by and said hi. Hope all is well. Take care. Muah, Tchau!
coribee