Eric Viudes started his ballet training in Biarritz, France. Fourteen years old he won the first prize in Le Concours de la Scène Francaise in Paris, and achieved a first mention in Danse de Charactère by the jury directed by Rita Thalia and Serge Lifar.

After that he was admitted to Le Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, where he completed his ballet education, and became one of the last private pupils of Mâitre Yves Brieux in the legendary Hôtel Particulier, Rue de la Rochefoucault.

He immediately got a contract at Ballet du Rhin in Mulhouse/Strasbourg, under the direction of Jean Sarelli, joined the company´s tour to Cagliari with Rudolph Nureyev, and danced in Ravel´s Bolero by Maurice Béjart at Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris.

In 1984 he was engaged at The Norwegian National Ballet in Oslo.

In 1985 Eric Viudes danced the principal role of Vaslav Nijinsky in Ballets Russes at the première in Oslo, to great critical acclaim, and one year later he was promoted to the soloist rank by the artistic director, the Norwegian ballerina Anne Borg.

He danced the role at all the later revivals of the production with the company, and also in the Norwegian television production of the ballet in 1996.

Cast in the major part as the son of the family Gallo in «Tango Buenos Aires 1907», another successful dance theatre production of Ulf Gadd and Svenerik Goude, entering the repertoire of The Norwegian National Ballet in 1987, he guested Gothenburg Ballet in that role in 1988.

Norwegian choreographer Sølvi Edvardsen has created two ballets for the national Stage: «Masken» (1985) and «Grieg à Jour» (1994) in which he portrayed Edvard Grieg.

Along with doing all the soloist dance parts in the classical repertoire from the pas de trois in«Swan Lake» and «The Nutcracker» to peasant pas de deux in«Giselle» the pas de deux of «Flower Festival» and male solo in «Napoli» Eric Viudes has also had other important roles with the company during his career, among those: The young bridegroom in «Les Noces» (Jerome Robbins), Amor in «Sylvia» (Laszlo Sergei), The french Cavalier in «Gala Performance» (Anthony Tudor), the Flegmatic in «Four Temperaments» (George Balanchine),The third Song in «Vier Letzte Lieder» (Rudi van Dantzig), the ugly stepsister in «Cinderella» (Ben Stevenson); the young husband in «La Ronde» (Glen Tetley), the male duet in «Exilium» (Jean Grand-Mâitre) and the red pas de deux in «Forgotten Land» (Jiri Kylian).

In 2003 he received from the Ministry of Culture and Communication in France, the famous State Diploma for teaching ballet, as a recognition of his artistic merits and experience.

He has also received two scholarships from the Norwegian state to participate in The Bournonville Summer Academy in Copenhagen (1991) and to study dance pedagogic at The National School of Ballet in Toronto and at The Hamburg Ballet School (1995).

As a guest teacher Eric Viudes has taught company classes and given Master Classes in Boston, Montevideo, Singapore, Tbilisi, Luxembourg and Lyon. For several years he was a regular guest teacher for the aspirant classes at The Royal Danish Ballet, during the artistic directorship of Frank Andersen.

He is now a member of The Bournonville Academy faculty and has been teaching at seminars with them in the USA and Tokyo, Japan, and he was also the Artistic Advisor for the complete six editions of The Bournonville à Biarritz Summer Academy from 2009 to 2014.

For the conclusion gala in Biarritz in 2014, he together with Dinna Bjørn and Gilbert Mayer, brought back to the stage The Pas de la Vestale, that Bournonville himself danced at the Opera Garnier, now danced by two young dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet.

Eric Viudes is now resident ballet master in European School of Ballet (ESB) in Amsterdam; he has also choreographed five pieces for the school, among them the Meyerbeer-pas de deux, that has been performed in festivals in Montauban and Forli and together with Dinna Bjørn he is giving master classes around the world.