FILM AND STAGE WORKS
(2009-2023)

FILM

Hungars Beach (2015)

Hungars Beach explores memory, trauma, and the power of place through a series of simultaneously beautiful and unsettling images. A small beach and cottage provide a vivid backdrop for a woman in distress, haunted by images of her younger self and the inescapable weight of loss.

Length: 3 minutes
Direction: Kate Corby
Camera: MinSeung Chang and SeEum Jung
Performance: Jessie Young, Josh Anderson, Lucy Watkins, Liam Flynn
Editor: MinSeung Chang with Kate Corby
Producer: GoEun Kim
Post-production/Color: Elizabeth Wadium
Sound: Nat Evans with Kate Corby
Location sound: Chris Roll and MyeoungSeok Oh
Filming location: Cape Charles, VA
Premiere: Experimental Film Virginia (EFV), Cape Charles, VA. 7/12/15

Subsequent screenings:
EFV, Dance Film Associations, New York, NY. 7/17/15
EFV, Certosa Festival, Pisa, Italy. 7/19/15
EFV, Jumping Frames, Hong Kong. 8/13/15
EFV, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA. 8/15/15
Wisconsin’s Own, Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI. 4/17/16
Harrisburg Dance Festival, Harrisburg, PA. 6/25/16
Triskelion Art’s Dance Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY. 7/14/16
Flatlands Dance Film Festival, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. 8/26/16
Detroit Dance City Festival Dance Film Fest, Detroit, MI. 8/26/16
Midwest RAD Festival, Kalamzoo, MI. 3/11/17
Tiny Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, CA. 3/25/18
Jacksonville Dance Film Festival, Jacksonville, FL. 4/19/18
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema 15th Annual Premiere ,Boulder, CO. 9/15/18
EnCore: Dance on Film Festival (rescheduled as a virtual festival due to COVID-19). 5/23/20-5/25/20
Screen.dance: Scotland’s Festival of Dance on Screen, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 3/11/21-3/13/21
**Special Mention Award in the category of International Jury Growing Up**
Motion State Arts’ Small Moves, Big Picture, the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, Northampton, MA. 9/25/21
Motion State Arts’ Small Moves, Big Picture, WaterFire Arts Center, Providence, RI. 3/10/22
Inspired Dance Film Festival, Outside the Box, Brisbane, Australia. 10/20/22
Inspired Dance Film Festival, Digital Suite, Brisbane, Australia. 10/19/22-10/30/22

West (2019)

West loosely plays off the Western genre, offering a gendered perspective on the rugged individualism, archetypes, and violence of the “American West.” The work, featuring soloist Katie Graves, was filmed at the Call of the Canyon Trailhead in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona, AZ and is equal parts conscious and subconscious, present and past, pleasure and agony. 

Length: 3 minutes
Direction: Kate Corby 
Camera/Editing: Elizabeth Wadium
Performance: Katie Graves
Sound: Tim Russell
Filming location: West Fork Trail, Sedona, AZ
Premiere: Opine Dance Film Festival, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. 3/20/20 - 3/21/20
Subsequent screenings:

Wisconsin’s Own, Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI. 5/13/21 - 5/20/21
Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Thessaloniki, Greece. 9/24/21 - 9/26/21
Inspired Dance Film Festival, Digital Suite, Brisbane, Australia. 10/19/22-10/30/22

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Relentless currents of human tension ... edgy mystery ... visually lush and true to Corby's intent.

/  Susan kepecs, dance magazine  /

STAGE

Harbor (2016)

Performed by married couple Ben Law and Chih-Hsien Lin, Harbor is an exchange of ideas, a reorganization of shared space, a seeking of balance between power and submission, intimacy and conflict, waiting and action. The work began as an investigation of east and west, conceptually, in relation to identity, and in bodily and creative practices, and transformed into a conflation of a private, domestic space and a broader conversation about cultural exchange. 

Length: 30 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Ben Law and Chih-Hsien Lin
Dramaturgy: Betsy Brandt
Lighting: Claude Heintz
Premiere: Compass, Kate Corby & Dancers, Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 10/20/16-10/22/16
Subsequent performance: Of Tide and Time, Hedwig Dances, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL. 4/21/17-4/22/17

Giving Way (2016)

A mesmerizing duet exploring proximity and circularity

Length: 10 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Michelle Scurlock Jensen and Jenny Showalter
Costumes: Maggie Jarecki
Premiere: The Loudest Quiet: Paige Caldarella & Kate Corby, Links Hall, Chicago. 6/13/16
Subsequent performances:
Two: An Exploration of Duos, Liz Sexe Dance, Madison Circus Space, Madison, WI. 10/15/16
Faculty Concert, American College Dance Association, North-Central Region, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. 3/24/18

as far as we can see (2016)

A trio examining social and biological interdependence, meditating on our relationships with one another and our environment 

Length: 9 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Molly Hodgson, Tiffany Merritt-Brown, Sarah Schwab
Costumes: Maggie Jarecki
Lighting: Claude Heintz
Premiere: Rule of Three, UW Dance Department, Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 2/4/16-2/16/16
Subsequent performances:
The Loudest Quiet, Paige Caldarella and Kate Corby, Links Hall, Chicago, IL. 6/13/16
Moving Interactions: Dancing through In-Between Spaces, World Dance Alliance-Americas Conference, University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. 8/10/16
First Fridays, Performing Arts Workshop, San Diego, CA. 6/2/17
Shared Space Series, Performing Arts Workshop, San Diego, CA. 7/21/17-7/22/17
Fresh Dances, GET DOWN/PICK UP Company, White Box Live Arts Theater, San Diego, CA. 8/25/17-8/27/17

Digging (2013)

a sextet exploring the possibilities of meditation for creativity, collaboration, and composition

Length: 30 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Josh Anderson, Erin Kilmurray, Benjamin Law, Sarah Mitchell, Anna Normann, Mikey Rioux
Music: Original score by Nat Evans and Ross Simonini, Tim Russell, Ryan Ross Smith 
Costumes: Maggie Jarecki
Premiere: SpinOff, Chicago Cultural Center. October 24 - 26, 2013
Subsequent performances:
Digging, Kate Corby & Dancers, Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison.  11/21/13-11/23/13
Dances for the Underground, The Seldoms and Links Hall, Links Hall, Chicago, IL. 12/12/14-12/14/14

Passing (2012)

An evening-length suite of dances exploring mortality, aging, life cycles, and our relationship with time

Length: 50 minutes 
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Josh Anderson, Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller, Sarah Mitchell, Anna Normann, Mikey Rioux, Michelle Scurlock
Lighting: Francesca Bourgault
Premiere: Passing, Kate Corby & Dancers, Links Hall, Chicago. December 7-9, 2012
Subsequent performances:
Green Space Blooms (excerpt), Dance Entropy. Green Space, Queens, NY. 4/12/13
Evolve + Involve: Dance as a Moving Question (excerpt), World Dance Alliance-Americas Conference & Festival, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 7/29/13 – 8/4/13
Kate Corby & Dancers/Passing (excerpts), Lawrence University, Appleton, WI. 10/30/13
Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL. 9/2/18-9/29/18
Previous in-progress performances:
Lift Off (excerpt), the Space/Movement Project, Outerspace, Chicago, IL. 11/18/12
York High Presents (excerpt), York Community High School, Elmhurst, IL. 11/14/12
DanceBridge Summer Residency Showing, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. 8/7/12-8/8/12
Dance Union (excerpt), Fasseas White Box Theater, the Drucker Center, Chicago, IL. 7/7/12

In Whole or in Part (2011)

In whole or in part is An evening-length dance theater septet created in collaboration with visual artist Orit-Ben-Shitrit. The title is taken from the United Nations’ 1948 definition of genocide as a series of “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group.” As originally conceived, In Whole or in Part includes performances by seven core collaborating performers and 7-20 local community performers.

Length: 45 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Josh Anderson, Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller, Anna Normann, Samuel Propersi, Mikey Rioux, Michelle Scurlock
Community Cast: Nicole Roerick with UW-Madison dance majors Rachel Campagna, Haley Halverson, James Hibbard, Melissa Holland, Carissa Holmes, Henry Holmes, Tori Iannuzzi, Rebecca Kesting, Lauren Mather, Allison Perlin, Katie Warner, Petra Weith
Costumes: Kit Stanley with Kate Corby
Video: Orit Ben-Shitrit with editor Jeremy C. Hansen
Lighting: Claude Heintz
Premiere: In Whole or In Part, Kate Corby & Dancers, Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 10/11/11-10/13/11
Subsequent performances: 
In Whole or In Part, the Drucker Center, the Apprentice Producers Program and Kate Corby & Dancers, Fasseas White Box Theater, Chicago, IL.  9/14/12-9/16/12
Previous in-progress performances:
Fresh Dances (excerpts), Links Hall, Chicago, IL. 8/5/11-8/7/11

Catch (2010)

A simultaneously spartan and theatrical quartet exploring empathy and emotional contagion

Length: 14 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller, Anna Normann, Michelle Scurlock
Music: Original score by Ryan Ross Smith
Costumes: Maggie Jarecki
Lighting: Claude Heintz
Premiere: C4, the former Dance Theater Workshop, New York. 7/18/10
Subsequent performances:
Wave Rising Festival, John Ryan Theater, Brooklyn, New York. 10/20/10-11/7/10
Catch, Links Hall and Kate Corby & Dancers, Chicago, IL.  5/6/11-5/8/11
PULSE: Intersections of Dance and Science, Wisconsin Science Festival, Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 9/28/12

Brute (2010)

A jarring and intense solo investigating violence and the female survivor, Brute Includes a set of 100 lbs. of red clothing

Length: 7 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with Emily Miller
Performance: Emily Miller
Music: Original score by Tim Russell
Costume: Maggie Jarecki
Lighting: Claude Heintz
Premiere: Manifold, Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 10/7/10-10/9/10   
Subsequent performances:
Wave Rising Festival, John Ryan Theater, Brooklyn, New York. 10/20/10-11/7/10
Catch, Links Hall and Kate Corby & Dancers, Chicago, IL.  5/6/11-5/8/11
SB-a-DAPT Festival, Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA. 6/15/11-6/19/11

Go (2009)

A wryly playful trio of shifting alliances, rapid-fire physicality and stillness

Length: 11 minutes
Choreography: Kate Corby, in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller, Anna Normann
Costumes: Maggie Jarecki
Lighting: Claude Heintz
Premiere: Causeway, Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, UW-Madison. 10/1/09-10/3/09   
Subsequent performances:
Go, LIVE ANIMALS Performance Collective, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse, Chicago, IL. 10/29/09 - 10/30/09
Cool New York Festival, John Ryan Theater, Brooklyn, New York. 1/27/10-2/7/10
Links to Haiti, Links Hall, Chicago, IL. 2/18/10
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: Chicago, Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago, IL. 7/28/10-7/31/10
J.O.E. Festival, produced by Redmoon Theater, Belmont Harbor, Chicago, IL. 9/2/10 -9/ 6/10
Catch, Links Hall and Kate Corby & Dancers, Chicago, IL. 5/6/11-5/8/11
Great Lakes Showcase, Arts Midwest, Grand Rapids Ballet, Grand Rapids, MI. 9/13/12
Midwest RAD Festival, Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers. Kalamazoo, MI. 3/14/13-3/17/13
Send/Receive, works by Peter Carpenter, Kate Corby, Laboratory Dancers, MaryAnn McGovern and Dancers and Jessie Young, Washington Hall, Seattle, WA. 6/12/13-6/13/13