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Summer OD Modern

Gail Corbin returns to New Haven Ballet to offer Open Division Modern Dance classes on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 a.m. this summer from June 13-29. Open Division classes are offered to all levels of dancers ages 12+ years on a drop in basis.

Ms. Corbin is a leading exponent in the technique and repertory of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman and has taught all levels of technique in the Humphrey/Weidman style for over twenty years. Ms. Corbin has worked with Beatrice Seckler, Deborah Carr, Peter Hamilton and Nona Shurman. She was a featured dancer/soloist in The Deborah Carr Theatre Dance Ensemble. Ms. Corbin has taught and directed Humphrey works all over the U.S. as well as Europe and Australia. For the past several years she has conducted Humphrey workshops at Momenta, Oak Park Illinois, which is also the home of Doris Humphrey Society, of which Ms. Corbin is a board member. Some of the other places she has taught as a guest teacher in this technique and repertory are Barnard College, Columbia University, The Juilliard School, St. Olaf College, and Columbia College (Chicago). For the past several years Ms. Corbin has been a guest teacher at the Jose Limon Institute, N.Y. She has recently returned from The Yard, Martha’s Vineyard where she taught an intensive Humphrey workshop and staged “Water Study”. Ms. Corbin is a featured dancer in two films, “The Technique of Doris Humphrey and Its Creative Potential” and “Charles Weidman on His Own”.