Roulette Kicks Off Composer/Choreographer Series Tonight
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 29, 2013
Roulette presents the "Composers/Choreographer" Series, part of the acclaimed DANCERoulette. The series is designed to highlight uniquely talented artists collaborating within movement, sound, spatial design, visual cacophony, choreography, improvisation, ephemerality, and theatrical re-imagining. Performances will run from tonight, October 29 - 31st. Full details below!
Toight, October 29, 2013 @ 8:00 pmComposer: Adam Cuthbért
Choreographer: Maura Nguyen Donohue zero...sixty
Zero....sixty examines accelerative gestures in movement and music within varying temporal frameworks in a collective creation. 60 seconds to 60 years in 60 minutes.
Maura Nguyen Donohue/inmixedcompany
with: Adam Cuthbért, trumpet/laptop?, David Broome, piano, Joe Tucker, percussion?, David Capps, Peggy Cheng, Timothy Edwards & Gilbert Reyes, dancers?, David Gonville/Nami Studios, video For more information go to:
http://roulette.org/events/composerchoreographer-maura-donohue-adam-cuthbert/Wednesday, October 30 2013 @ 8:00 pm
Double-Edge Dance - A Contemporary Dance and Music company Double-Edge Dance comes UNHINGED. Double-Edge Dance will perform an evening of choreographed solos including: Retracing, cloud elegy, and Unhinged, a series of improvisations, and music compositions: Still Adrift, Bypassing the Ogre, and Broken Remains. Retracingis a collaboration with textile artist Rebecca Cross. Dancers include co-founder Kora Radellla and Sarah Lass. Musicians include co-founder Ross Feller (saxophones) Johnny Butler (woodwinds), Aryeh Kobrinsky (double bass), Dorothy Martirano (violin), Jason Nazary (drums), Stephanie Richards (trumpet), Matthew Silberman (woodwinds), and Adam Tendler (piano)
http://roulette.org/events/double-edge-dance/Thursday, October 31, 2013 @ 8:00 pm
Composer: Geoff Matters
Choreographer: Koosil-ja A Wind Blowing On Us FOR ROULETTE
This piece has been created specifically for the architecture of Roulette's performance space, based on the original work, A Wind Blowing On Us. The work will be danced by Elise Knudson, Melissa Guerrero and AstonK to the music composed and performed by Geoff Matters. For more information go to:
http://roulette.org/events/composerchoreographer-koosil-ja-hwang-geoff-matters/ About Roulette: Roulette - one of New York City's premiere venues for experimental music for over 33 years - has reopened bigger and better than ever. Located in a newly renovated 1920s Art Deco concert hall in Downtown Brooklyn, the new Roulette features two levels of seating for up to 400 people (600 standing), an expanded multi-channel sound system, projection screen for film and multi-media events, state-of-the-art lighting system, modular stage, and a specially designed floor to accommodate dance. Teamed with bold new programming, the new Roulette promises to be one of the most exciting places in New York City - if not the country - to experience adventurous music and art.
Photo Credit: Steven Schreiber
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