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david corbet
multidisciplinary artist who has been working
in the performing arts since 1990.
He has developed and created work as a musician, composer, dancer,
choreographer, director and editor. Primarily he has focussed on the
intersection between sound and movement and has worked regularly with
choreographers Rosalind Crisp, Paul Romano, Simon Ellis, Felicity
MacDonald and Shaun McLeod, both as a dancer and a composer/musician.
Currently he is working with Simon Ellis on a dance/installation
project, Inert, as well as a new short work for Paea Leach.
He is collaborating with Jacob Lehrer on a dance film and a new work entitled Boyfriend.
He recently performed in Paris with Ros Crisp in April 2005. He recently danced with
State of
Flux and created sound for Paul Romano for the 3D season at Dancehouse and had a
residency at the Australian Choreographic Centre with Jacob Lehrer. He is
currently programming Dance Flicks with Dianne Reid for October, editing and
publishing <proximity> magazine, teaching multimedia at Swinburne University,
lecturing at the Centre for Ideas - VCA, and most importantly spending time
with his son Jude. He still thinks a lot about changing careers.
In the last few years he has had collaborative residencies in Antwerp
and Berlin with Rosalind Crisp, lived as an angel for 10 days on the Victorian
Arts Centre spire as part of Colony, opened the Dancers are Space Eaters festival
at PICA
with Two Suits, created the soundtrack to Caravan an adults only puppet show
(earning him a Green Room Award Nomination), and convinced 10 men to dance an
improvised work for the Melbourne International Arts Festival as The Boys.
He is a member of State of Flux (performance improvisation dance company), Two
Suits (dance theatre for the street) and The Boys (director and founder). He
was a founding member of Bird on a Wire. He has performed for Legs on
the Wall, Nicky Marr, Y Space, and Jen Crossman. He presented Dance Dialogues for
3 years on 3CR radio. He continues to edit and publish <proximity> magazine
through
Slightly
Moving Productions (SMP), both of which he
founded in 1998.
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