ERIC GARCIA

Eric Garcia is a choreographer, performer, filmmaker, and activist whose feet are deeply rooted in the Bay Area. He is the Co-Director of detour dance and the Tiny Dance Film Festival, and proudly serves as Production Coordinator with Fresh Meat Productions, Sean Dorsey Dance, and the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. Eric hosts a monthly drag cabaret at Make Out Room and a more sporadically at The Rite Spot. Inspired by personal narrative and storytelling, Eric has collaboratively worked with groups of incarcerated men, senior adults, LGBTQ youth, and self-identified non-dancers on various performance projects. He was the recipient of the 2017 CHIME Award with Margaret Jenkins and was nominated for a 2016 Isadora Duncan Dance Award.