Biography

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 Gail is a board member. Some of the other places Gail 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 in Chicago. For the past several years Gail has been a guest teacher at the Jose Limon Institute, New York. She has recently returned from The Yard, Martha’s Vineyard where she taught an intensive Humphrey workshop and staged “Water Study.”

The demand for her expertise has taken Gail to London where she performed Doris Humphrey’s works at Royal Festival Hall. While in England she taught at The Place, Middlesex University and Islington Arts Factory. She is co-director of the Doris Humphrey Foundation in London. Gail has given master classes and performed at the renowned Folkwang Tanztudio in Germany, Dance Theatre of Ireland and Modern Movement in Sydney, Australia. Gail is a featured dancer in two films, “The Technique of Doris Humphrey and Its Creative Potential” and “Charles Weidman on His Own.”

She continues to be a sought after coach, teacher and director of this very important dance style.