eddy ocampo

Choreographer

Eddy has worked with some of Chicago's premiere dance companies including the Joel Hall Dancers, River North Chicago Dance Company and Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago. He has also served as school director of the Giordano Dance Center, as well as the director of Giordano II and the Giordano Merit Scholarship program. As a master jazz teacher, Eddy has taught in Europe, Mexico, Canada, Turkey, the Russian Republic and throughout the U.S. As a choreographer, Mr. Ocampo's works can be seen on such companies as Houston Metropolitan Dance Company, Odyssey Dance Theatre (Salt Lake City, UT), Kannon Dance (St. Petersburg, Russia), Lisa Clark Dancers (San Francisco, CA), Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Thodos Dance Chicago and many regional ballet companies across the U.S. Eddy received the Dance Chicago 2004 Outstanding Choreography Award as well as the Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation Choreography Award for Dance Chicago in 2005 & 2007. He has been written about in several dance publications including Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit, Dance and Chicago Magazines. In November 2005 Mr. Ocampo was honored as Filipino American of the Year by the Filipino Association of America. Eddy has won numerous choreographic competitions including the 2007 Eisenhower Dance Company National Choreographic Competition and the Leo’s International Jazz Choreography Competitive Event at the 2007 Jazz Dance World Congress. He one of 8 artists in 2008 who is being honored by the Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation as an up and coming artist in the City of Chicago. Eddy Ocampo currently resides in Chicago and St Louis and directs two non-for-profit organizations, Forum Jazz Dance Theatre and Black Box Dance. Eddy has set three works on HMDC, Dark Kalppa (2003), Hysterical Silence (2004) and most recently Vicissitude (2008).