Eric Chappelle

echappelle@cornish.edu

Eric Chappelle has created music for dance and dance education for over 30 years. His earliest produced work was with choreographer and performer, Ingrid Hurlen in San Francisco. In Seattle, Hurlen and Chappelle collaborated on work for the Allegro Dance Festival and the Arts in Nature Festival. Other choreographers with whom Eric has worked include Christopher Beck, Mary-Kay Bisignano-Vadino, Pablo Cornejo, Charlene Curtiss, Debbie Gilbert, Joanne Petroff, Dominique Gabella, Anne Green Gilbert, Lee Anne Hartley, Jesse Jaramillo, Aiko Kinoshita, Vivian Little, Mark Magruder, Michele Miller, Mary Reardon, and Deborah Wolf. His work as a dance musician includes Ballet, Modern, Creative Dance, and Dance for Parkinson’s Disease. He has accompanied classes at the University of Washington, The Creative Dance Center, Cornish College of the Arts, Dance Fremont and intensives including the Summer Dance Intensive for Teachers at The Creative Dance Center, Strictly Seattle at Velocity Dance Center and Bill Evans’ Dance Intensives in Port Townsend, WA. Eric’s Music For Creative Dance series of CDs and his BrainDance Music CD are used by educators worldwide. Many of Eric’s recent compositions for dance have been collected on the album DanceMakers available from AventurineMusic.com.