CorbinDances dance company performs at Dance Place this weekend. Photo by Lois Greenfield, courtesy of CorbinDances.

A great dancer does not a choreographer make, but area native Patrick Corbin has proven otherwise with his company CorbinDances. Fresh off receiving rave reviews this spring in a two week season at Joyce SoHo in NYC, CorbinDances will perform two shows this weekend at Dance Place.

The company’s engagement this weekend will be a homecoming for Corbin, who grew up in Potomac, Maryland. He shared his thoughts about his company and his dance influences with DCist this week, confiding that he is “very excited and a little nervous about coming home to perform.”

When it comes to his childhood, Patrick said, “Growing up in the D.C. area was great. Some of my fondest memories are of Great Falls Park in Maryland, and I still love visiting the canal.”