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Rapid-fire timing and complex exchanges give her ensemble works the zing of a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.
/ Zachary Whittenburg, Dance Magazine /
ABOUT KC&D
“Compelling” and “full of gestured conflict and impish daring” (Chicago Tribune), Kate Corby & Dancers’ collaborative work has been seen in the Midwest, New York, California, Seattle, Atlanta, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, and Hungary, where artistic director Kate Corby traveled as a Fulbright fellow. Corby featured in Dance Magazine as one of six choreographers “on the cusp of making waves in the larger dance world,” is currently a professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), where she is honored to be the inaugural Buff Brennan Professor of Dance. Corby served as the UW Dance Department Chair from 2017-2020 and is currently the Chair of the UW Department of Theatre and Drama. She established Kate Corby & Dancers in the Midwest with Chicago-based dancers Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller, and Anna Normann in 2009. In addition to regular seasons in Chicago and Madison, some of the company’s past projects include: the Chicago Cultural Center’s SpinOff Festival, the World Dance Alliance-Americas Festival in Vancouver, BC and Puebla, Mexico, a collaboration and live performance with cellist Zoë Keating, commissioned by the Wisconsin Union Theater, the Live Art, Live Rio! Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: Chicago at the Dance Center of Columbia College. From 1999-2004, Corby was based in San Francisco, where her projects were supported by the Zellerbach Family Fund and Theater Bay Area, and performed in the Cowell Theater and ODC Theater, among others.
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Matthew Gregory Hollis
More recently, Kate Corby began creating dance films and her work has been screened extensively since 2016, including in Flatlands Dance Film Festival, the Tiny Dance Film Festival, the Midwest RAD Festival, the Jacksonville Dance Film Festival, the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, and Screen.dance Scotland, among many others. In addition to teaching master classes nationally and internationally, Corby served on the faculties of Beloit College, Columbia College Chicago, and the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy. Corby also co-founded and co-directed Performing Ourselves, a community dance program based in Madison which employed undergraduate dance students to teach movement and wellness curricula in local community centers and schools. Performing Ourselves served a total of approximately 1,000 5-14 year olds from 2012 - 2022, and was a founding partner of the UW-Madison’s Community Arts Collaboratory. Corby received her MFA in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received the Nettl Award for Outstanding Student Choreography, and her BA in dance and women’s studies from Beloit College. Corby is extremely grateful for the artistry, time, and humor of all of the company’s past collaborators, and strives to center people and healthy relationships in all areas of her work.
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With an assist from the beautiful visual designs of Orit Ben-Shitrit, only overshadowed by the raw athleticism of Corby’s dancers, In Whole or in Part is a well-crafted, well-executed exploration of human impulses.
/ Matthew de La Pena, Time Out Chicago /
