Eric Geiger was a company member of the Bill T Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company in New York City, the Lyon Opera Ballet in France, Djazzex Modern Dance in the Netherlands, and V-TOL Dance in London. As a guest artist he has performed with ODC in San Francisco, Lower Left, under the direction of Nina Martin, Allyson Green Dance, Gabriel Masson Dance, Yolande Snaith and Patricia Sandback. In San Francisco, he facilitated movement workshops for The Medea Project, Theatre for Incarcerated Women, directed by Rhodessa Jones. Eric is the Associate Artistic Director of McCaleb Dance in San Diego, collaborating with Artistic Director Nancy McCaleb, where he has performed, choreographed, and designed scenic elements and costumes for numerous works. He was a part of the Hybrid Authorship Project alongside Joe Alter, Liam Clancy, D.J. Hopkins, Ashley Johnstone and Craig Wolf, collaboratively creating the evening length work, Still Undecided. Eric also performed with Ron Estes, Jess Humphrey, Rachael Lincoln, Karen Schaffman and Leslie Seiters in Kalpa 1: My Life as a Turtle under the direction of Sara Shelton Mann. In the summer of 2010 he participated in the Solo Performance Commissioning Project choreographed and directed by Deborah Hay in Findhorn, Scotland and recently premiered his adaptation of the solo. Currently he is creating with Liam Clancy and Tara Knight making spontaneous dances with the camera, collaborating on the full evening work titled BARK, with Liam Clancy, Karen Schaffman and Leslie Seiters, and continuing his embodied practice with collaborative dance theatre LIVE. Eric is also a full time faculty member of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. In January of 2011 he, together with Co-Artistic Director Karen Schaffman, launched PADL West a 501(c)(3) organization committed to fostering innovative embodied research through art and conversation.
