Eric Dunlap
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Eric Dunlap is co-director of Forward Motion Theater founded in 1995 with media artistHolly Daggers. Their mission is to explore movement and technology through original works combining physical performance and digital media. As the company's choreographer, he has created choreoworks that incorporate lasers, fiber optic costumes, electroluminescent lighting and live-mix video, incorporating themes of cloning, cyborgs, the mating rituals of Martian plant life, a futuristic human garden, and a bondage fairy tale. Using structured improvisation and formalized composition for each work to generate a specialized vocabulary of movement to relay these ideas. Eric spent his formative years touring nationally and internationally as a principle dancer with the Alwin Nikolais / Murray Louis Dance Company. Currently dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, he has worked with various companies including Peter Pucci Plus Dancers, Pilobolus, Rebecca Stenn/Perks DanceMusicTheater, and Sarah Skaggs Dance/Higher Ground. He is the main curator for FMT’s exhibition series and events, uniting artists that work in collaboration with live-mix video, audio and movement. Eric continues his movement studies through Aikido, where he holds the rank of Shodan. His role in FMT is also that of a curator of multi-disciplinary performance through FMT’s EyeWash, an exhibition series featuring VJs and video artists working in collaboration with audio and movement artists that has presented over 150 artists in the past six years. As a Video Artist and VJ, Eric has performed and created live-mix installations at many venues and special events including the Museum of Modern Art, with James Brown for Diesel for Fashion Week, at Carnegie Hall for CBS’s Up Front, at the Kennedy Center for the Japan! Festival; performing the on stage video for the MySpace live broadcast of rap artist T.I, and with Animal Collective at the launch of the River to River Festival.
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