CURRENT PROJECTS
Terrarium (2023)
Terrarium, a work for both live performance and film, uses the movement of a solo dancer to explore isolation, confinement, and the limbic system, or ‘lizard brain.’ minimal lighting and a subtle yet haunting score provide the backdrop for one woman’s embodied trauma response.
Length: 7 minutes
Direction: Kate Corby
Performance and movement invention: Emily Miller
Cinematography and editing: Alex Malik
Sound: Nat Evans
Premiere (live performance): Midwest RAD Festival, Epic Center, Kalamazoo, MI. 3/3/23 (Performance by Lauren John)
Subsequent screening (film): Wisconsin’s Own, Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI. 4/15/23
Subsequent performance: White Wave Dance’s 2024 Solo/Duo Festival, Dixon Place, New York, NY. 2/9/24
Blossom (2023)
Blossom is A dissonant, psychological, and theatrical trio exploring memory, relationship, and our experience of time.
Length: 12 minutes
Direction: by Kate Corby
Performance and movement invention: Katie Pratt, Cindy Stefanek, and
Clare Weigert
Sound: Ryan Ross Smith
Lighting Design: Claude Heintz
Costumes: Kenneth Hoversten
Props: Kate Corby
Premiere: Faculty Concert, Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 2/2/23-2/11/23
Subsequent performance: American College Dance Association North-Central Conferene, St. Olaf College, Northfiled, MN. 3/24/24
dancelikeaman (2019)
A simultaneously playful and sobering duet, dancelikeaman investigates the male dancing body as a site for complex questions about power, misogyny, heteronormativity, and childhood gender identity formation.
Length: 35 minutes
Direction: Kate Corby
Performance and movement invention: Josh Anderson and Mikey Rioux
Text: Josh Anderson and Mikey Rioux, with Kate Corby
Sound: Tim Russell
Dramaturgy: Marcus Hayes
Lighting Design: Claude Heintz
Scenic/Prop Design: Kate Corby with construction by Claude Heintz and Mikey Rioux
Vocal Coaching: Colleen Conroy
Premiere: Kate Corby & Dancers with the Seldoms, Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 11/14/19-11/16/19
Subsequent performance: Midwest RAD Virtual Festival. 3/5/21 - 3/7/21 (excerpts)
Top photo: film still
Bottom two photos: Maureen Janson Heintz