Relentless currents of human tension
-Dance Magazine
Jarringly beautiful
-Isthmus
Kate Corby & Dancers is a contemporary dance organization committed to producing innovative dance theater works that push the aesthetic boundaries of concert dance. Ms. Corby is currently an assistant professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an active choreographer, dividing her time between Madison and Chicago. 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 performances in Madison and Chicago, the company's recent projects include: the Live Art, Live Rio! Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the SB-ADaPT Festival in Santa Barbara, CA, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: Chicago at the Dance Center of Columbia College, the World Dance Alliance Global Dance Event at Dance Theater Workshop in New York and the Wave Rising Series in Brooklyn. The company's current collaborating performers are: Erin Kilmurray, Matthew McMunn, Emily Miller, Anna Normann, Samuel Propersi, Mikey Rioux and Michelle Scurlock.
Kate Corby has shown her work in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Santa Barbara, Madison, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan and Hungary, where she carried out choreographic research as a Fulbright fellow. She was recently featured in Dance Magazine’s April 2011 issue in the article “Taking Off” highlighting six emerging choreographers. From 2007-09 Ms. 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. She completed her MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, where she received a University Fellowship and the Wanda M. Nettl Award for outstanding student choreography. In addition to teaching master classes nationally and internationally, she has served on the faculties of Beloit College, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy.
Photo of Erin Kilmurray and Mikey Rioux by Shomari Montsho
-Dance Magazine
Jarringly beautiful
-Isthmus
Kate Corby & Dancers is a contemporary dance organization committed to producing innovative dance theater works that push the aesthetic boundaries of concert dance. Ms. Corby is currently an assistant professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an active choreographer, dividing her time between Madison and Chicago. 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 performances in Madison and Chicago, the company's recent projects include: the Live Art, Live Rio! Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the SB-ADaPT Festival in Santa Barbara, CA, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: Chicago at the Dance Center of Columbia College, the World Dance Alliance Global Dance Event at Dance Theater Workshop in New York and the Wave Rising Series in Brooklyn. The company's current collaborating performers are: Erin Kilmurray, Matthew McMunn, Emily Miller, Anna Normann, Samuel Propersi, Mikey Rioux and Michelle Scurlock.
Kate Corby has shown her work in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Santa Barbara, Madison, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan and Hungary, where she carried out choreographic research as a Fulbright fellow. She was recently featured in Dance Magazine’s April 2011 issue in the article “Taking Off” highlighting six emerging choreographers. From 2007-09 Ms. 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. She completed her MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, where she received a University Fellowship and the Wanda M. Nettl Award for outstanding student choreography. In addition to teaching master classes nationally and internationally, she has served on the faculties of Beloit College, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy.
Photo of Erin Kilmurray and Mikey Rioux by Shomari Montsho
