Dance:
Eric trained in Chinese Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, and Ba Gua Zhang in the United States, Taipei, and Beijing. In 2013, he began studying contemporary dance with various faculty teaching at the American Dance Festival and, in 2017, completed an MFA in Dance at the University of Wisconsin. His choreography has been featured in the North Carolina Dance Festival, the Midwest Alternative Dance Festival, the Richmond Dance Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, the Fact/SF Summer Dance Festival, UrBANGUILD Kyoto, and at the Performance Philosophy colloquium at the University of Amsterdam. His work has been supported by grants from the Knight Foundation, North Carolina Humanities Council, and the Arts and Science Council.

Music:
Eric studied West-African drumming, jazz drums, and mallet percussion while pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy. In 2012, he began composing music for dance and accompanying dance classes at the American Dance Festival, the Charlotte Ballet and the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. He currently performs with the percussion duo, The Fastest Steed on Earth.

Philosophy:
Eric received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of South Carolina in 2005, with a dissertation focused on John Dewey's philosophy of art. In 2007, he began teaching full-time at Queens University of Charlotte, offering courses in the Philosophy of Art, Film Theory, Environmental Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, and Ethics. His scholarship centers on philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of technology, and Confucian ethics. In 2019, he published Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South and, in 2022, a book on dance costuming in contemporary dance: Instruments of Embodiment. In 2020, received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach dance technology at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan.