Eric Handman is a choreographer and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah's School of Dance. Prior to receiving his MFA from the University of Utah in 2003, he earned a BA in English from Skidmore College in 1991. He was a member of New York Theatre Ballet and then a dancer in various New York–based modern dance companies such as Doug Varone and Dancers, Nicholas Leichter Dance and Joy Kellman and Company. He has worked with David Dorfman, Lisa Race, Wendy Perron, Stephen Koester, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Koosilja-Hwang, Eun Me Ahn, Pooh Kaye and many others. His choreography has been commissioned domestically and internationally, been shown at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and won the 2014 “Pretty Creatives” International Choreographic Competition for the Northwest Dance Project. He has served on the board of directors for the Congress on Research in Dance and the American College Dance Association. Handman is a Fulbright Specialist and a member of the Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars at the University of Utah. His Arts-in-Health research revolves around his interdisciplinary collaborative work on choreographic thinking, virtual reality and autism.