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f r a m e | w o r k  At 38, I am a 17 year veteran teacher who has helped thousands of men and women to dance. While I am trained to teach both lead and follow at a competitive level, my specialty is teaching men proper lead techniques. My style is conservative, emphasizing classic dance etiquette and focusing on the substance, not the flash.

Having worked in the Entertainment industry, including the lead in a mass distribution, award

winning educational video (Road Rage distributed by Discovery), appearing on 'Friends', numerous plays and having the feature role in a 35mm short film picked up by Hypnotic.com (The Catch produced by Waterland Films), I am no stranger to stage, television or film. Though I enjoy being in front of the camera, my ultimate goal is to bring my abilities behind the scenes, assisting when dance is required. I'm thrilled with the growing number of dance scenes in the movies, but I feel the actors, primarily the men, are not represented justly. There is a great deal of modest class, sophistication, strength and masculinity in dance that I have yet to see reflected in my generation of movies.

Eriksummers.com receives numerous e-mails every week, I respond to every question or comment; I've received feedback and questions from India, China, Canada, Argentina, Russia and from all over the US. I get questions from students, engaged couples and men & women from their 20's to their 70's who dance as a hobby. I love hearing how dance has changed and improved peoples lives. Please, feel free send a comment or question.

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LiquidGooey® Graphic  Web Design: What started as a simple curiosity quickly turned into a furious digital addiction. I see the Internet as an international pallet and the perfect opportunity to display my artistic projects within a World Wide Gallery. Starting with a simple HTML book and Microsoft's Notepad, I now hold both national and international awards in web design, run two of my own Unix hosting servers (not open to the general public) and work with most of the latest web development tools; Including:
  Applications: Dreamweaver MX 2004, FLASHMX 2004, Photo Shop CS, 3D Impact Pro, Real Producer and numerous other 3rd party applications.

 
Technologies
: multimedia compression and streaming(including audio and video PodCasts), digital graphic creation and rendering, PHP/MySQL, CSS, Javascript and advanced DHTML.
   

Please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding either dance or web development, I'm always happy to share my experience.

 

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