Kate Corby is a contemporary choreographer, performer and educator. Her dance theater works have been performed extensively in Chicago, as well as in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Taiwan and Hungary, where she carried out choreographic research as a Fulbright fellow. Corby is currently an assistant professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches composition, improvisation, contemporary technique and somatics. She re-established Kate Corby & Dancers with Chicago-based dancers Erin Kilmurray, Emily Miller and Anna Normann in 2009. The company was San Francisco-based from 2001-04, performing at the Cowell Theater, ODC Theater, Dance Mission and Venue 9, among other venues. From 2007-09 Corby directed the LIVE ANIMALS Performance Collective in Chicago, showing work at Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Links Hall, Hamlin Park Fieldhouse and Around the Coyote Gallery. Corby received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, where she was also an instructor. In addition to teaching master classes nationally and internationally, Corby has served on the faculties of Beloit College, the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy and the Dance Center of Columbia College.

Photo of Erin Kilmurray and Emily Miller by Ryan Bourque