TRANSIT(ION): Emigration Transformation
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
The ballet dances the epic story of twentieth-century Eastern European Jews from the Pale of Settlement who, as immigrants and artists, faced the trials and gifts of everyday assimilation and artistic creativity—the exodus that refused slavery, desired liberation, struggled with freedom. Her work embraces the drive to survive in the New Country and a critical view of capitalism and materialist culture. She has choreographed what Hans Blumenberg calls the impulse to resist utopic vision for realistic solution. We hear the human story of the laughter through the tears. As one father mused, “America’s a free country. You’re perfectly free to keep your opinions to yourself. You can’t even tell your own daughter what to do.”
Controlled Subject
Jews--Migrations;Dance--Performances
Language
English
Rights
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Repository Citation
Colbert, M. M.
(2011).
TRANSIT(ION): Emigration Transformation.
Jewish Literary Heritage course syllabus taught by Roberta Sabbath. The syllabus includes Margot Mink Colbert's work.
Comments
The Margot Mink Colbert Papers (MS-00901) are available at the Special Collections & Archives Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries.
For more information about Jewish history in Southern Nevada, please see the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project.
For an article published about this dance, see Sabbath, R. (2019). Dancing on the Edge of a Rainbow: Margot Mink Colbert’s ballet, TRANSIT(ION): Emigration Transformation. AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, The Body Issues, 26–27.