Patrick Corbin (born Potomac, Maryland), is an American dancer and founder of CorbinDances.[1][2]
Training
editHe began dance training at a young age in Potomac, Maryland and also studied at the Washington School of Ballet (being an apprentice with the Washington Ballet where he danced in works by Choo San Goh). He also studied with the School of American Ballet (1983).
Work
editHe danced with the American Ballet Theatre II (1984). He then joined the Joffrey Ballet (1985–1989), where he was introduced to the choreography of Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Frederick Ashton, Laura Dean, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Pilobolus, and Paul Taylor. He was with the Paul Taylor Dance Company 1989–2005, becoming one of its most celebrated artists. He was the original "Johnny" in Paul Taylor's Company B.[3]
Corbin is featured in five PBS Great Performances between 1988 and 2004 and in the 1998 Academy Award-nominated documentary Dancemaker. In 2001, Corbin was the recipient of the NY Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Achievement with The Paul Taylor Dance Company.[4]
He has since danced with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in “Men’s Stories” and he was one of the 43 dancers featured in David Michaelek’s film installation, "Slow Dancing" shown at the Lincoln Center Festival and the Music Center of Los Angeles.
Corbin founded CorbinDances in September 2005, with its inaugural season in spring 2006, embracing modern, contemporary, and ballet disciplines. He has stated that he aims to collaborate broadly, reaching beyond dancers to include writers, directors, lighting designers, visual artists, and musicians.
Recent performances include La MaMa Moves (April 2007), Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out (July 2007) and the Fire Island Dance Festival (July 2007). The company stages Corbin's work and that of Paul Taylor.
Corbin, whose career has bridged the worlds of classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance, has been a guest faculty member at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, University of California, Irvine, George Mason University, SUNY Purchase, University of Kansas, University of Texas, Austin and University of Michigan. He has taught professionally for American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. He currently serves as associate professor of Practice at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance in Los Angeles, California.[5]
References
edit- ^ Joan Cass -The Dance: A Handbook For The Appreciation Of The Choreographic 2004.p218
- ^ Dance Magazine Janice Berman, Patrick Corbin: life after ballet; the former hippie at the School of American Ballet finds the grass is greener at Paul Taylor Dance
- ^ Laura Jacobs Landscape With Moving Figures: A Decade on Dance - 2006 p90 "When Asnes left the company last year, the gleaming Patrick Corbin slid effortlessly into seniority, more understated, stylized, his crew-cut centurion's profile a portrait in helmeted concentration and strength. Corbin's performances aren't ."
- ^ Writing Dancing: In the Age of Postmodernism -1994 p28 "Patrick Corbin, of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, surely had serious ideas in mind when he created "Psychedelic Six Pack," to recordings by the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. A scrapbook of images of ..."
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