In 2011, Campion directed and produced Pursuit, a short dance film created for Dances Made To Order that was featured at the Dance on Camera Festival at the Lincoln Center in New York, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and at the Dance for Camera Festival at the Phoenix Center for the Arts. In 2012, Campion was awarded a fellowship at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia Brazil where she produced and directed a dance film called Street Dance Orixás that premiered at VIVADANÇA 2014 in Salvador, Brazil.


Currently, Campion is working on the creation of Sneaker Suites: collection of pieces that delve into the iconic importance of sneakers in Hip Hop culture and examine their spiritual necessity (sole/soul) as the trade tool of street dancers. Sneaker Suites will premiere in the Spring of 2015.


“Campion is an effective and thoughtful storyteller.” -Steven Woodruff, DancePlug.com

Amy “Catfox” Campion

Artistic Director


Choreographer, Teacher, Dancer, and Artist, Campion speaks the language of hip-hop to unite dynamic performances, daring concepts, and diverse audiences. She began to dance at an early age, breaking the all the rules in ballet class. She discovered hip-hop dance at parties and nightclubs while studying modern dance and Afro-Caribbean dance as an undergraduate at the University of Washington. In 1998 Campion was a founding member of Daniel Cruz’s Cruz Control hip-hop dance company in Seattle. In 1999, Campion dedicated herself to the art forms of B-Girling and Capoeira. In 2003, she moved to Los Angeles to attend graduate school at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures and to pursue her dance career. She graduated with an MFA in Choreography from UCLA in 2006. Since then, Campion has performed with Rennie Harris Puremovement, Jacob “Kujo” Lyons’ Lux Aeterna Dance Company, Contra-Tiempo, and Capoeira Batuque. She was featured in B-Boy the Movie and on 1,000 Ways to Die and has appeared in music videos for the Janoskians, Kana Shimanuki, Genevieve Goings, and Open Mike Eagle. Campion has taught dance and arts activism to all ages and abilities.



About the Company:


Founded in 2006 in Los Angeles by Artistic Director Amy “Catfox” Campion, Antics creates multimedia urban dance performances that leverage the expressive capacity of hip hop. Antics’ work transforms vital stories and ideas into moving visual metaphors through breakdancing, locking, popping, krumping, DJ’s, MC’s, spoken word, poetry, theater, graffiti art, and film. Antics consists of 10 company members who represent the best street dancers in Los Angeles. Antics is committed to innovating the realm of hip hop dance theater as well as participating in community education through exciting and engaging residencies, workshops, and lecture/demonstrations.


Antics has been featured at the San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest, the J.U.i.C.E. Hip Hop Dance Festival, the B-Girl Be Festival in Minneapolis, the Ford Theatres in Hollywood, the El Portal Theater, the REDCAT, the Skirball Cultural Center, the Levitt Pavilion, the Esalen International Arts Festival, World of Dance, the Pasadena Dance Festival, Dancing in the Margins Festival, B-Girl Be Festival, the LA Women’s Theater Festival, and the LA County Holiday Celebration at the Music Center as well as on Ovation TV, Strife TV, PBS, KCET, and LA36.


Antics has received awards from the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Durfee Foundation, American Dance Abroad, the Flourish Foundation, the Thomas Spiegel Foundation, and participated in the Emerging Leaders Institute at APAP, in the LA Dance Advance initiative, and in Pentacle’s Help Desk.


“The vision for ancient myths has been owned for decades by the ferocious Martha Graham… Yet Campion, seized a piece of that sacred territory with the debut of ‘Illuminated Manuscript’” -Jean Lenihan, Los Angeles Times


“Extremely athletic across a variety of street dance styles.” -Jessica Koslow, Dance Zine


“…convincing onstage chemistry.” -Steven Woodruff, Dance Plug