DANCE:

Eric has trained in Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan in the United States, Taipei, and Beijing and, in 2013, he began studying contemporary dance with various faculty teaching at the American Dance Festival. In 2017, completed an MFA in Dance at the University of Wisconsin. His choreography has been featured at the North Carolina Dance Festival, Breaking Ground Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, Fact/SF Summer Dance Festival, and the touring Dance City Festival (NYC, Chicago, Detroit). He won best choreographer on the NYC leg of the Dance City Festival tour, thereby procuring a slot in the 2026 ARTSinTANK Festival in Seoul, South Korea. 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 composes for and 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 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 primarily on the philosophy of embodiment and the philosophy of technology. In 2019, he published Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Dance Research in the American South. In 2020, Eric received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach dance technology at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. In 2022, a book on dance costuming in contemporary dance: Instruments of Embodiment. In 2025, he co-edited a volume on Robot Performance that is forthcoming in the Routledge series: Advances in Theater & Performance Studies.