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- ↑ Joan Cass -The Dance: A Handbook For The Appreciation Of The Choreographic 2004.p218
- ↑ Dance Magazine Janice Berman, Patrick Corbin: life after ballet; the former hippie at the School of American Ballet finds the grass is greener at Paul Taylor Dance
- ↑ Laura Jacobs Landscape With Moving Figures: A Decade on Dance - 2006 p90 "When Asnes left the company last year, the gleaming Patrick Corbin slid effortlessly into seniority, more understated, stylized, his crew-cut centurion's profile a portrait in helmeted concentration and strength. Corbin's performances aren't ."
- ↑ Writing Dancing: In the Age of Postmodernism -1994 p28 "Patrick Corbin, of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, surely had serious ideas in mind when he created "Psychedelic Six Pack," to recordings by the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. A scrapbook of images of ..."
- ↑ "Patrick Corbin".