Eric Larsen

I am interested in how the human body and movement can be a channel for ritual and healing. I experience movement practice as a way to connect intimately with the limitless – in the world, in with others, and with the limitless within us.

As a young man, I pursued this goal by studying modern dance in New York City with the Erick Hawkins dance company. After that, in the 1970’s and 1980’s I studied and lived at the Zen Center, at Tassajara and Green Gulch. After my time in the monastic life, I continued to explore how we connect and heal. For 25 years until 2018, I was a scientist at the University of California. I studied the natural flow of water and how rivers form in nature.

Recently I returned to dance to continue to study and embody our lives as ones of connection and healing. I currently practice performance art both in California and in Kyoto where my family and I have restored an old folk house. My current movement art has been inspired by working with many good butoh teachers and collaborators. In Kyoto I study and practice with Yurabe Masami and his students. This is a study that deeply encourages my ongoing practice.