About Ballet Mink
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Directed by Margot Mink Colbert, dancer, choreographer and teacher, BALLET MINK is dedicated to producing new and original works and has an ongoing history of creating ballets with an eclectic flair. Internationally known with productions worldwide from New York to Copenhagen, Edinburgh to Las Vegas… Ballet Mink features premiere dancers including Dolly Kelepecz, Tamara Lohrenz, Catherine Green, Ernesta Corvino and Sophie DeVore among others. |
Ballet Mink, founded in New York City in 1970, has an ongoing history of eclectic ballets with an unusual flair. Ballet Mink 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, public parks, on public television, city streets, in lakes, and in maximum security prisons. The company has performed throughout the United States, in Denmark, Russia, France, Guatemala, Australia and Scotland. In New York City, Ballet Mink performed at the Medicine Show Theatre, Ninety Second Street Y, Merce Cunningham Studio, Riverside Church, Barnard's Minor Latham Theatre, Hunter College Playhouse, Theater for the New City, among others. During a residence in Wisconsin the company performed annually at the Madison Civic Center’s 2400 seat Oscar Mayer Theatre.
Ballet Mink is currently at home in Las Vegas Nevada where ongoing performances have been seen at the Judy Bayley Theatre, the Black Box Theatre, Flamingo and Charleston Heights Library Theatres Congregation Ner Tamid, as well as on the city sidewalks and University campus Art galleries and walkways. Choreographer Margot Mink Colbert’s most recent work, ˆTRANSIT(ION) Trilogy,” three works developed over the past four years, premiered in Copenhagen, 2009, is ready to premier as a one evening work
“ Emigration Transformation – Moving to America,”
Earlier full evening works by choreographer Mink Colbert include “Chaconne and Other Dances,” "the colour of EYES ," "Today...,” "On A Ribbon of Sound," Rice In My Socks," "Timeline," "Domestic Flight," "!!!?," "Portraits'" "Assembly Required, Robot Enclosed," "Happy Birthday Dances," "Arrival," "Dance Performance in the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda," among others, Works on Jewish Cultural themes include TRANSIT(ION) trilogy, "A Spin of the Dreidel,” “Moldau.” “Grandma's House," and "GOLEM," abstract ballets "Cityscape," and 'Treny Laments,” and works from literary sources include "The Rose the Fox and the Little Prince," "GOLEM'" and “Dance Back the Cat.”
Ballet Mink, founded in New York city in 1970, incorporated as a 501C3 in 1981 as Margot Colbert Dance Company Inc. and is currently registered in the State of Nevada. Work by Ballet Mink has been supported by the Nevada Arts Council, Cirque du Soleil Community Support Grants, the the city of Las Vegas, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Kathrine Dalglish Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, The Wisconsin Arts Board, the Madison Festival of the Lakes, Madison Civic Center, the Madison City Arts Grant program, the University of Wisconsin, the French Institute of Copenhagen, Teaterkalendaren in Denmark.
Ballet Mink company members are professional dancers who support work of the company and the development of innovative, collaborative, new dance presentations.