Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre at Tribeca Performing Arts Center
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Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre in Widow's Walk. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
It’s a no-brainer that the use of live music improves the experience of seeing dance by some unmeasurable but substantial increment. Mark Morris has carved a laudable, if lonely, niche by only using live music. But of course, like any other luxury, it must be paid for, and as companies build up repertories, the attached costs also increase proportionally. But there are ways to compromise, as Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre did in two week-long programs at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, when Tynek brought in the group ETHEL to play onstage for the second week. The music ensemble’s presence alone lent an importance and immediacy to the choreography, and to the music for some of the works, by Aleksandra Vrebalov.
