Eric Geiger dances, makes dances, and collaborates with other artists in an attempt to make sense of the world around him. He is a full-time faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Theatre and Dance, guiding through courses that question what dance is and can be. His values around performance and dance have been influenced by his experiences in performing works by and collaborating with artists such as Bill T. Jones, William Forsythe, Stephen Petronio, Susan Marshall, Maguy Marin, Angelin Preljocaj, Nancy McCaleb, Sarah Shelton Mann, Deborah Hay, Anya Cloud, Karen Schaffman, Liam Clancy, Jess Humphrey and Leslie Seiters. He is also the Co-Artistic Director of PADL West, a laboratory for performance, art, and dance. His training as a Feldenkrais Method practitioner has lead him to better understand what the least amount of effort means as well as the idea of re-direction in movement and other multiple contexts.