2011 NYC PERFORMANCE SEASON"It is a sign of the skill, range and taste of the Czech-born choreographer Dušan Týnek that a new dance of his will often recall the work of a great choreographer ... dance with uncommon poetry .... With the help of good musicians, Mr. Týnek’s work breathes ... this week’s terrific premiere, “Portals,” [was] striking [with a] high level of invention ... Live music doesn’t always improve a dance. For some choreographers, live musicians are expensively irrelevant to their work or threateningly distracting. Dušan Týnek is not one of those choreographers. The participation of the string quartet Ethel in the second program of his company’s two-week run at the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center made for an especially vibrant Thursday night."
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"Mr. Týnek showed a remarkable capacity for creating tightly structured dance worlds, inhabited by ingenious, surprising movement invention ... the work is marvelous ... Mr. Týnek is an undoubted talent, a choreographer who seems fascinated by movement itself and the strange, subtle ways in which it communicates strange, subtle things." - The New York Times
MEET THE MUSICIANS: This Week - ETHEL Photo: James Ewing
Acclaimed as America's premier postclassical string quartet, ETHEL invigorates contemporary concert music with refreshing exuberance, fierce intensity, imaginative programming and exceptional artistry. Formed in 1998, New York's ebullient ETHEL is comprised of Juilliard-trained performers Cornelius Dufallo (violin), Dorothy Lawson (cello), Jennifer Choi (violin), and Ralph Farris (viola).
ETHEL performs adventurous music of the past four decades, with emphasis on works composed since 1995. Their repertoire includes self-composed works, as well as works by such luminaries as Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, John Zorn, Steve Reich, John King, JacobTV, David Lang, Scott Johnson, Don Byron, Marcelo Zarvos, Evan Ziporyn, and Mary Ellen Childs, and Aleksandra Vrebalov. ETHEL has released several albums since its debut, self-titled ETHEL (Cantaloupe Music, 2003), which was named one of Billboard's "Best Albums" for that year. The group's next recording, Light (Cantaloupe Music, 2006), was selected as #3 on Amazon.com's "Best of 2006: Top Classical Editor's Picks" and ETHEL's most recent release, OSHTALI(Thunderbird Records, 2010), marks the first recording of American Indian student works. The group has appeared as a guest artist on a dozen music labels and was recently featured with vocal group Lionheart on John the Revelator: A Mass for Six Voices by Phil Kline (Cantaloupe, Music, 2008) and the Grammy® Award-winning Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman (Concord Records, 2009). Find out more about ETHEL on their website. |
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