BALLET MINK COLBERT

BY ED BRUCE....edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

Always an endless arrary ov quality events in Las Vegas...Saturday at UNLV this wonderful ballet...one day only.

I am not sure what the hell this was...but I like the dance and I liked this and its production....5 world class dancers in a small studio...it was wonderful.

Like everything I liked some of it better than some of it...no intermission...8 minutes late.

Here is the bio...

BALLET MINK COLBERT, inc, founded in New York City in 1970, has an ongoing history of eclectic ballets with an unusual flair. BALLET MINK COLBERT, inc is known for an exciting synthesis of styles, using traditional ballet and unconventional surprises. The repertoire features both theatrical, site specific and videodance works which have been performed in proscenium theatres, parks, city streets and maximum security prisons. BALLET MINK COLBERT, inc has performed throughout the United States, in Denmark, Russia and Scotland.




Veteran dancer and choreographer Margot Mink Colbert has choreographed over sixty original ballets in styles ranging from neo-classic to post-modern. Her career spans the professional, independent and academic milieus. Her work is described as “the art of moving gracefully on the borderline between modern dance, postmodern dance and ballet” (Terpsicore #3, August 1998). The choreography encompasses works drawn from literature (Golem, Le Petit Prince), original scenarios (Bridal Wave, Timeline, L’Hotel du Chevre, Arrival, Domestic Flight), abstract and neoclassical works (Today…, Convex Journey, Cityscape, On A Ribbon of Sound, Rice In My Socks) and collaborations with theatre, opera and music ensembles. In 2000 Mink Colbert choreographed Three Penny Opera, produced at UNLV in Las Vegas and Mr. Shakespeare, Mr. Porter, produced by the Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble off-Broadway in New York.



Mink Colbert, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Dance Division, in New York City, has studied with some of the greatest names in American classical ballet and contemporary dance as well as with Bournonville teachers in Denmark. She began training as a child in ballet with Thalia Mara and attended New York High School of Performing Arts. Her ballet training includes extensive work with Antony Tudor, Alfredo Corvino and in Cecchetti with Margaret Craske. Her modern dance training is with Martha Graham and Jose Limon in composition with Louis Horst, Antony Tudor, Merce Cunningham and Lucia D’Lugocewski. She is currently a tenured Professor of Dance, Director of the Ballet Program as well as Assistant Chairperson at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, College of Fine Arts, Department of Dance.

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