David Campos
Artistic Director
and choreographer

Born in Barcelona, David Campos started in the dance as a student of the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. Two years later, he decided to leave for Paris to perfect his classical dance technique to be a scholar of the Ballet School of Solange Golovine ( ex-prima ballerina of the Ballet Marquis de Cuevas).

At 18 years, he was rightaway taken as soloist in the Städtische Bühne Hagen  (Germany) and later on as soloist of the Royal Ballet of Flanders (Belgium), the most important company of the country, performing in the whole of Europe and the United States; also as invited artist, in Europe and Asia, dancing a diversity of roles from different prestigious choreographers such as Jiri Kylian, Nils Christe, and Valery Panov.

In 1987, he returned to Barcelona, and alongside his wife Irene Sabas, also soloist in the Royal Ballet of Flanders, founded his own school (Escola Ballet Classic David Campos) that specializes in classical ballet. Also an excellent professor and pedagogue, he has granted classes in several dance conservatories in Spain, and was also invited to grant master classes at the University of the Philippines Masters of Production Course.

He has also been invited to be member of the jury in several Dance Competitions held in France, sponsored by the National Confederation of Classical dancers in France.

Campos´choreographies have been very well-received and acclaimed by national and international critics alike, some of which are: Petrushka, Codex Latinus (Carmina Burana), Velvet Wings (for Ballet Manila, Philippines), Rock Requiem, Inquietuds, Themes of Vivaldi, the Masque of the Red Death( a complete ballet based on Edgar Allan Poe´s famous story,  in musical collaboration with the Finnish rock group Apocalyptica). At 2003, the company has also premiered three new Campos choreographies: Scubertina, Volveré a Nacér, and his new version of Carmina Burana. And, just recently, Ne Nehledej, a classical ballet piece to contemporary Czech music.

In 1999, he founded his own dance company, Compania de Ballet David Campos, obtaining great success all over Spain, and at several national and international dance festivals. Campos´choreographies stand out for their great originality and innovation, using to the fullest the strong classical base of his dancers (on points for the girls), infusing to the company his unique personal movement style, different from habitual dance styles and pieces much too repetitively witnessed in many dance companies nowadays. With this unquenchable creative streak for the new (themes, styles, ideas) David Campos and his company, now granted residence in Teatro Josep Maria Sagarra (Santa Coloma, Barcelona), continue to grant to its public and its critics unforgettable ballet performances.

Irene Sabas
Asistant Director
and Ballet Mistres

Irene Sabas began her dance studies in her hometown, Manila (Philippines). Recommended by Dame Margot Fonteyn (prima ballerina assoluta, Royal Ballet, London) she was granted a British Council scholarship for two years to be able to perfect her ballet technique at the prestigious Royal Ballet School of London, under the tutelage of renowned professors such as Marion Lane, Pamela May, Eileen Ward, Lynn Wallis, David Drew, Julia Farron, etc.

After her stint in London, she returned to her country as soloist of Dance Theatre Philippines (Felicitas Radaic, Director) and as guest soloist of the Ballet Federation of the Philippines, dancing principal roles such as “Swanhilda” in Coppelia, Don Quijote Pas de Deux, Cinderella, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardee, etc. plus original pieces created by modern and neoclassical Filipino choreographers (Villaruz, Layag, Radaic, Fabella).

Later on, she moved on to Europe to dance as soloist in Hagen, Germany, and after, as soloist with the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Belgium where she has interpreted different principal roles in full length ballets such as: Masha (Valery Panov´s Three Sisters), Adelaide  (Panov ballet the Idiot), soloist roles in Carmina Burana (Butler), Symphony in Three Movements (Christe) , Allegro Brillante ( Balanchine), etc. dancing all over Europe and America, and as guest artist in Asia.

Throughout her dance career she has worked with outstanding dance personalities, choreographers and pedagogues such as: Alexander Prokofiev (Bolshoi), Nikolas Beriosov (St. Petersburg), Woytek Lowski (American Ballet Theatre), Vladimir Kaplun (Kirov), Valery and Galina Panov (Kirov), Bill Morgan (Scotland), etc.

In 1987, together with her husband David Campos, she cofounded a classical ballet school in Barcelona (Escola Ballet Classic David Campos), where she continues as head ballet mistress and codirectress. Recognized and respected for her excellent teaching qualities, she is regularly invited as guest to impart classes in different dance conservatories in Spain, as well as at the University of the Philippines Masters of Dance Production Course (Manila).

Presently she is a dedicated teacher, pedagogue, and coach to the young classical dancers of the school who are working for a dance future, and at the same time is Ballet Mistress, Repetiteur, and Associate Artistic Director of the Ballet David Campos.I