Dancetheater by Octavio Campos
inspired by the Slap and Tickle Show, Susan Sontag and ww
Dancetheater by Octavio Campos
inspired by the Slap and Tickle Show, Susan Sontag and www.bareback.com.
World Premier: October 25, 2007 - Carnival Center of the Performing Arts - Studio Black Box Theater
Future Performances: October 26 & 27, 2007
Presented and co-commissioned by Miami Dade College, The Center for Cultural Collaborations International,
Carnival Center of the Performing Arts, and Camposition.
Choreography: Octavio Campos
Texts: Matt Glass
Costumes: Diana Lozano
Video: Bec Stupak
Music: Zeena Parkins, Livio Tragetenberg, Barry White, Electric Six, Non, a.o...
Dramaturgy: Michael Yawney
Performance: Natasha Tsakos, Diana Lozano, Heather Maloney, Ron Headrick,
Octavio Campos, Matt Glass & Joshua Nardi
Sex is different now. There are new questions. And lies.
The Bugchasers is an evening-length performance that explores the nature
of desire in a marginalized world where new forms of communication and a
fraught sexual epidemiology have altered the experience of intimacy.
Bugchasers are young men who compulsively seek to become HIV positive,
eroticizing risk in a game of viral Russian roulette where the shared bond of a
communicable disease substitutes for love.
The Bugchasers incorporates theater, dance, music and video to ask
whether the human need for belonging and contact has led to a new eroticism
or become a monstrous force for self-annihilation.
It is a story of accelerated love in our time.
Who is that person on the other side of the mattress? How can you be sure?
WARNING: This performance is not recommended for a first date.
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A collection of performance works from 1995- 2006 created by Octavio Campos and his collab
A collection of performance works from 1995- 2006 created by Octavio Campos and his collaborators
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"In Kitchen Monkey, Campos' inventive use of the steel grid above the stage plunges the au
"In Kitchen Monkey, Campos' inventive use of the steel grid above the stage plunges the audience into the belly of the beast -- literally. Several dancers jump, moan, and make a monkey ruckus in the dark spaces above and around the stage, creating a surround-sound satire to Campos' darkly deviant drama.
After a brief slideshow and faux academic lecture on the link between homo sapiens and their not-so-distant cousins, the monkeys, the curtains open to reveal Rudi Goblen and Teresa Barcelo in a domestic drama that quickly moves from dismal to disturbing. Think Blue Velvet rewired with electronica and hip-hop.
Trained as dancers, Goblen and Barcelo turned out to be the tour de force of Wednesday's performances.
Partially inspired by his work with women in prisons, Campos has choreographed vertical, restrictive movements for Barcelo. She must answer to Goblen's bullhorn-wielding beck and call with arms glued to her side and head down. The exasperation, humiliation and, finally, rage that Barcelo is able to render from Campos' tightly gestural vocabulary speak volumes."
The Miami Herald - 3/2007
Texts and Scenes Inspired by Richard Schechner, Ernie Cline, Fernando Calzadilla,
Anne Bogart, Eugenio Barba and inmates from the Broward Correctional Institute for Women.
Director: Octavio Campos
Musical Advisors: Grady Cousins & Rudi Goblen
Music: The Wiggles, DJ Muller, Galas, Medeski
Costumes: Emily Peters/Frivole
Lighting: Travis Neff
Cast
Dr. O: Octavio Campos
Black Monkey: Rudi Goblen
White Monkey : Teresa Barcelo
Mini Monkey: Anthony Cano
Monkey Orchestra: Tiffany Paterson, Marlin Sill, Edwardo Wienkoski, Phoenix Gonzalez, Katie Gwynn Sackson, Genesis Otero
Production Miami Light Project, Carnival Center of the Performing Arts and
the New World School of the Arts and Camposition.
Special thanks to these master artists, mentors, students, The New World School of the Arts, Patrice Bailey, Justin Macdonnel, Michelle Hefner Hayes, Greg Jackson, Laura Berman, the Camposition Ensemble and Board of Directors for all their input and support for the project.
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Solo Performance by Octavio Campos
and
Construction Dance Master
Swingo
Premier S
Solo Performance by Octavio Campos
and
Construction Dance Master
Swingo
Premier September 24, 2006
This duet for a dancer and a bulldozer foreshadows the melding of man and machine and public spectacle. The dancer yearns to establish a relationship with the bulldozer, but the love affair between man and machine is ultimately interrupted. Set on one of Miami's actual construction sites, the dance represents the longing for the life of luxury promised by high end condominium developments, but denied to most residents of Miami. The impossibility of living in these luxury condos is particularly poignant for artists, since art has been used as the vehicle to generate interest in these developments, but artists have been increasingly marginalized.
Production: Camposition, Category 305 and The Miami Light Project
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A performance by Julie Atlas Muz and Octavio Campos done at Art Basel 05 for the Live Thr
A performance by Julie Atlas Muz and Octavio Campos done at Art Basel 05 for the Live Through This party given by Jeffrey Deitch of Deitch Projects, New York.
The piece was orginally conceived by Julie, check her out, she is amazing.
www.julieatlasmuz.com
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Dance Theater Accompaniment
Interpreted by Miami-based dancetheater artist Octavio Camp
Dance Theater Accompaniment
Interpreted by Miami-based dancetheater artist Octavio Campos.
Blue LIVE delves into the dark and sexually puzzling world of filmmaker Derek Jarman. The film, Blue, exposes Jarman's physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness. In a lush soundscape by Brian Eno, pulsing against a purely blue screen, Campos reacts to the film in his unique interdisciplinary style to comment and respond to Jarman's reality of 1993. BLUE LIVE is poignant, revealing, amusing, poetic and a philosophically challenging work of live dancetheater with experimental cinema.
As a choreographer and performer, Campos' work has been performed in many 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. He has collaborated within the works of Robert Wilson, Birgitta Trommler, Jorge Guerra, Philip Glass, Bebe Miller, Vivienne Newport amongst others
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Conceptualized, written and performed
By
Octavio Campos
Luna del Pinguino is an int
Conceptualized, written and performed
By
Octavio Campos
Luna del Pinguino is an interactive dance theater solo that takes the audience through a lyrical journey of a not so friendly machista penguin named Stan. El pinguino presents an unsettling reality of dictators, religious fanatics, militia and with absolute faith, he slowly emerges and exposes the world that we live in - making pit stops at the concentration camps of Auschwitz, the refugee camps and towns of the West Bank and the trials of Timothy McVeigh. Through a powerful performance installation, a disconcerting truth that is often detached from our every day lives is staged. In a search for paradise and virgins, the pinguino questions why? He challenges the audience to re-act and inter-act. The pinguino is determined to fly before he dies.
Performance: Octavio Campos
Director: Jorge Guerra
Lighting & Technical Design: Gary Lund & Celso Peruyera
Costumes: Diana Lozano
Original Music: loudmouthkitten
Additional music: Faure, The Klezmatics,Spigga, Morricone, Blonk, Koranic Chants
Sound & Video Design: Octavio Campos
Texts: Octavio Campos, Leslie Neal, Timothy McVeigh
Production: Camposition, Florida International University Department of Theater and Dance, State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Board of County Commissioners, Florida Dance Association and Artemis.
Performance Length: 65 minutes without interruption
Performer: 1
Technical crew: 1 - 2
1st performance: September 10, 2004
Special thanks: Artspring, New World School of the Arts, Patrice Bailey, Miami Light Project, Miami Dade College's Cultural Affairs Department, Daniel Bourgoin, Agency in a Box, ABC Circus, Amodomez Productions, Circ X and Kartell.
A work-in-progress of luna del pinguino was originally commissioned by the Florida Dance Festival in June 2003.
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dancetheater by Octavio Campos
Performance: Natasha Tsakos, Diana Lozano, Heather Malon
dancetheater by Octavio Campos
Performance: Natasha Tsakos, Diana Lozano, Heather Maloney, Ron Headrick,
Octavio Campos, Matt Glass & Joshua Nardi
Sex is different now. There are new questions. And lies.
The Bugchasers is an evening-length performance that explores the nature
of desire in a marginalized world where new forms of communication and a
fraught sexual epidemiology have altered the experience of intimacy.
Bugchasers are young men who compulsively seek to become HIV positive,
eroticizing risk in a game of viral Russian roulette where the shared bond of a
communicable disease substitutes for love.
The Bugchasers incorporates theater, dance, music and video to ask
whether the human need for belonging and contact has led to a new eroticism
or become a monstrous force for self-annihilation.
It is a story of accelerated love in our time.
Who is that person on the other side of the mattress? How can you be sure?
WARNING: This performance is not recommended for a first date.
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IPO - THE INSANE PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY
"What if the art world was run by a corporatio
IPO - THE INSANE PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITY
"What if the art world was run by a corporation with a bottom line and a goal of domination of the global market? In IPO: Flipping Unreal Estate, purchase of your ticket earns you the status of an initial investor and gets you into a board meeting for the IPO Corporation, a global art merchandizing firm...Wildly creative, this performance piece explores the potential commoditization of artistic expression and creativity by putting it into a corporate context...
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