Camille Tovar Pavliska

Camille Tokar Pavliska is from Floresville, TX. She began her dance training at Ballet San Antonio Academy and later the Dance Center of San Antonio and Premiere Ballet Academy. She competed with both Ballet San Antonio Academy and the Dance Center of San Antonio’s competition teams where she won multiple awards. From 8th grade to Senior Year, she danced with the San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet under the direction of Susan Beil Connally and Karin Connally Heiden where she had the honor of performing Soloist and Principal roles. 

While with San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet she attended and performed in multiple Regional Dance America festivals. She has attended summer programs with Houston Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, BODYTRAFFIC, BalletX, and the National Choreography Intensive on scholarship where she was the recipient of the Spark Award. She was accepted into the Emerging Choreographers Forum SF in 2021. Her choreography has been performed at multiple festivals including the Ancient Lakes Dance Festival in 2021 and Regional Dance America Festivals in 2019 and 2020. Her performing and choreographic work on the dance film Telephone has been screened at film festivals and featured in multiple publications including the New York Times.

She is a graduate of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program in San Francisco, CA under the direction of Karah Abiog. While at LINES she performed in works by Sidra Bell, Gregory Dawson, David Harvey, Alonzo King, Chuck Wilt, and Keelan Whitmore, among others. She choreographed three pieces while at LINES. Following her graduation from LINES Training Program she danced professionally with Dawson Dance SF under the direction of Gregory Dawson.