Reviews from dancenOw/NYC (October 2008)
Moving Forward, With Nods to the Past
The New York Times
Roslyn Sulcas
October 31 2008
"And the sheer-enjoyment-of-dancing prize goes to an excerpt from Dusan Tynek’s rambunctious 'Apian Way,' set to Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in C. Busy as bees (apparently the inspiration for the dance), three men rush about bumping chests, lifting one another and generally frolicking. And why not?"
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Reviews from Apian Way & Fleur-de-lis (June 2008)
Social Bees Fluttering to Bach's Sonatas
The New York Times
Gia Kourlas
June 14 2008
"The Czech choreographer Dusan Tynek is a bit of an anomaly nowadays: he makes dances, formal ones, set to Baroque music that burst with leaps, turns and lifts ... Both ["Apian Way" and "Fleur-de-lis"] are striking for their architectural rigor and fervid movement invention ... He has only seven bodies, including his own, at his disposal, but Mr. Tynek is the rare choreographer whose vision would soar with a dozen more."
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Audience Review
Mount Tremper Arts Blog
Valerie Linet
August 18 2008
"In both pieces there was a commitment from the dancers to connect with one another and the audience in such a concentrated way over an extended period of time with a clear and conscious ability to express story and emotion ... I was so moved by the strength, control, expressiveness, and forms of the dancers’ bodies, that I figured they must all be divine and I was the mortal who had encountered them."
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Tynek's Busy Bees
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Eva Yaa Asantewaa
June 16 2008
"well-crafted, expert movement ... it is perhaps the blending of his dancers’ humble humanity and their bee-like energy, moves and clusterings – arranged with Týnek’s sharp vision – that give the work its power to touch the heart."
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Good Buzz: Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre Follow the Apian Way
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Quinn Batson
June 20 2008
"Apian Way is a delight ... there are many interesting soft-collapsing movements and partnerings mixed with swinging-arm synchronous moments, all flowing together so steadily that the viewer is left with a buoyant feeling as much as a visual memory."
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Goings On About Town - Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre
The New Yorker
Brian Seibert
June 16 2008
“Apian Way” ... seems larger than its cast of seven (which includes Týnek). It’s full of breath and Baroque joy, its balleticized folk-dance patterns and daisy chains tweaked by quirky spasms, stutters, and flutters that play with the theme of bee life. “Fleur-de-Lis” [is a] striking composition of religious imagery ..."
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Reviews from Open Look Festival 2007 (July 2007)
Dusan Tynek, Kosile and Scenes - Open Look 2007 (in translation)
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Alisa Kustikova
July 16 2007
The spectator can not help but feel that he is attending some sort of sacred event. For he is. Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre is plastique theater, in the fullest sense of the term, where it is possible to trace lines of the plot and the character of heroes as revealed through the unusual talents of the choreographer
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Reviews from La Mama Moves! (April 2007)
Passion for Seeing What the Body Can Do
The New York Times
Roslyn Sulcas
April 28 2007
Dusan Tynek’s “Fleur-de-lis” is a beautiful work, full of poetry and surprise ... a cascade of haunting moments that seem perfectly in accord with the music ... Mr. Tynek has a gift for creating movement that looks physically impossible; men cantilever off the women’s bodies; a woman floats away from a man, her legs flying out behind her. He also makes beautifully architectural dance, often weaving a diagonal line of dancers through a vertical one, and he has an acute musical sensibility evinced in a strangely effective stop-and-start section to the surging violin in “Resurrection.”
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"New Virtuosity": Downtown Puts on its Dancing Shoes
Ballet-Dance Magazine
Cecly Placenti
April 27 2007
"The kinetic poetry of Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre draws on an athletic lyricism and smart design ... there is much of the classical style in Tynek's work, but only enough to be refined, to serve the propulsion into the new."
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Reviews from String(s) Theory (March 2007)
Connect the Dots:Choreographer with a painterly eye deconstructs
The Village Voice
Deborah Jowitt
March 19 2007
"[in the] striking new Fleur-de-lis [and] wonderfully resonant Kosile ... Týnek has excellent musical taste and a powerful sense of the pictorial. Elegantly designed, often surprising groupings and encounters are his strong suit ... I'm impressed by how skillfully Týnek and the performers ... weave the dancing to produce rich images of community life."
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Command Performance: Tynek Casts a Demi-Spell
The Dance Insider
Alison D'Amato
March 15 2007
"The force of Tynek's movement lies in a particular clarity of shape and intention, with the dancers' bodies evoking the concrete and architectural. The movement phrases are strong and specific, and often call on the performers to approach each other in the service of some exhilarating moments of partnering."
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Flower Form
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Lori Ortiz
June 1 2007
Tynek's contemporary dancers recall early concepts of the body, as in his acclaimed "The Pink Tree" ... and the totality of dance and cultural history ... sophisticated, thought-provoking, and appealing ... Tynek's Old World sensibility feels refreshing and different as it's presented in our fast-paced urban environment."
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Reviews from Kosile/ScENes (July 2006)
New Life Can Arise in Old Happy Endings
The New York Times
Jennifer Dunning
December 24 2006
"Here are five of the year’s contributors of illuminating wonder ... The forthrightness of Dusan Tynek’s choreography in a performance by his company at Dance Theater Workshop in July brought Mark Morris to mind. But Mr. Tynek’s powerful “Kosile,” inspired by a collection of ballads by the 19th-century Czech poet Karel Jaromir Erben, created and inhabited a dark yet almost funny world of its own, in a shifting field of men in white wedding shirts and women passing red lilies from mouth to mouth."
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Stirred by Old Folk Tales, a Troupe Offers Up a Fresh Breeze
The New York Times
Jennifer Dunning
July 17 2006
"the terrific Dusan Tynek Dance Theater swept through Dance Theater Workshop ... like a cool breeze in a parched landscape ... [Tynek's] powerful new “Kosile” is entirely his own, though a few fleeting moments had the shadowed urgency of the Antony Tudor classic, “Dark Elegies” ... fascinating choreographic vocabulary and imagination"
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Process and Product
Gay City News
Brian McCormick
July 7 2006
"kinetic, poetic, appealing, and smartly designed ... the work is remarkable and the dancers exceptional ... a superb ensemble"
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The Dusan Tynek Dance Theater
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Celia Ipiotis
July 17 2006
“Solid choreography … which draws on an athletic lyricism and a spunky folk dance sensibility … logic always surrounds objects in motion and clever logic guides his smart, clean dances. [Týnek] is a choreographer to watch.”
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Dusan Tynek
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Susan Reiter
July 16 2006
"ingenious and clever ... clarity of vision and an overlay of luminous melancholy were evident in the two substantial world premieres"
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Reviews from Camera Illuminata (December 2004)
Works Onstage Are Pictures in the Flesh
The New York Times
Jack Anderson
December 7 2004
"Týnek's choreographic flights of fancy [are] alluring ... fascinating ... powerful"
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Choreography on a Canvas
Gay City News
Lori Ortiz
December 16 2004
"Learn to say Dušan Týnek. You may see this .... choreographer's name in lights. With a range of talents and choreographic tools ... [Týnek] is not afraid to dance with the masters. He is one of the few choreographers today working with plastique like Ashton did."
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A Sampler of the New Season Offers a Couple of Must-See-More-Ofs
The Village Voice
Tobi Tobias
October 12 2004
"The Pink Tree [is] astutely constructed and beautifully danced ... of 85 choreographers [at the 2004 Dancenow/NYC Festival], Dušan Týnek stood out for his skill at implying feelings through movement"
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Director of the Windhover Center
Ina Hahn
"Dušan re-invents the language ... of modern dance ... with ingenious combinations and resolutions ... dynamic changes are everywhere ... and lifts don’t happen except from necessity, from deep arousal or ecstasy. Dušan has broken the rules ... within a well worked-out structure, and with a knowledge of what [he] was breaking and why. Dušan is a brilliant and promising young choreographer, who has a rich knowledge of the art (art and music and theater) of Western civilization - something much needed if the art of dance if it is to continue to flourish and be taken seriously. He raids the past in order to re-invent it as Bartok did with Bach ... he is the Bartok of dance — much as Humphrey was the Bach of dance."
Reviews from Debut (December 2003)
Curiosity Follows a Choreographer’s Debut
The New York Times
Jack Anderson
December 13 2003
"striking ... inventive ... musically bewitched."
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Succumbing to Glimpses of a Poet's Soul and a Closet
The Village Voice
Tobi Tobias
December 10 2003
"luminous with imagination ... filled with vision, charm and wit ... art that preserves uncorrupted the poetic fantasies of childhood"
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Letter from New York
The DanceView Times
Mindy Aloff
December 8 2003
"[Pilot's Dream] is more than ingenious or neatly shaped: it’s a beautiful, ranging epic, filled with dramatic surprise and expertly shaped choreographic events ... Pilot’s Dream announces a choreographer with a future to which one looks forward, in a time and a place where so many other hopes for the art of modern dance seem end-stopped ... [Týnek is] a dance poet, and a very rare one."
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