Eddy Ocampo 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. He is also being recognized by the National 
American College Dance Festival in New York City in June 2008 as 
outstanding choreographer. Eddy Ocampo currently resides in Chicago 
and St Louis and directs two non-for-profit organizations, Forum Jazz 
Dance Theatre and Black Box Dance.