Patrick Corbin danced professionally with The Washington Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, ABT II, the Joffrey Ballet, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch, and Martha Clarke. He was featured in five PBS Great Performances and in the 1998 Academy Award-nominated documentary, Dancemaker. He is a recipient of the New York Performance Award (Bessie) for Sustained Achievement with the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

He received an MFA in dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. At USC, Professor Corbin laid the foundation for Dance and Health as an area of study, research, and practice resulting in his interdisciplinary course, DANC 140 Dance and Health.