Eric Franklin is director and founder of the Institute for Franklin
Method in Wetzikon, Switzerland. He has more than 35 years of
experience as a dancer and choreographer, and he has shared imagery
techniques in his teaching since 1986.
Franklin has taught extensively throughout the United States and
Europe at the Juilliard School in New York, Royal Ballet School in
London, Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Dance Academy of Rome, and
Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich. He was also a guest
lecturer at the University of Vienna. He has provided training to
Olympic and world-champion athletes and professional dance troupes
such as Cirque du Soleil and the Forum de Dance in Monte Carlo.
Franklin earned a BFA degree from New York University's Tisch
School of the Arts and a BS degree from the University of Zurich.
He has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since
1991.
Franklin is coauthor of the best-selling book Breakdance, which
received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author
of 100 Ideen f r Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and
Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is
a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and
Science.
Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland.
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