February 18th
Sweet Combustion (Ikue Mori, Jennifer Choi, Marco Capelli & Rubin Kodheli)
Doron Sadja
Jim Staley with Special Guests
will take place at 7:30 PM, NOT 8:30 PM.   Also, Jim Staley will be joined by Ikue Mori.



Updated lineup/info for DANCEROULETTE:

DANCEROULETTE
February 26th & 27th @ 8:30 PM
Dedicated to the collaborative efforts of composers and choreographers, this event brings both music and dance to Roulette. Some of the partnerships presented are years in the making while others have joined forces for the first time. Over the course of two nights, Melanie Maar & Kenta Nagai, Jessica Cook & Ashcan Orchestra, Katy Pyle & Jules Skloot, and Tess Dworman, Kyli Kleven & Steve May share their varied perspectives on the relationship between sound, movement, composition and choreography.

FEB 26
Katy Pyle with Jules Schoot / Jessica Cook with Ashcan Orchestra / Tess Dworman, Kyli Kleven, & Steve May with Tristan Shepherd
Katy Pyle with Jules Skloot present "3 duets of Unification Theory," an exploration of the questions of emotional microcosms and their connection to what's visible in the macrocosm of performance. This work puts humiliating desires on display in 3 duets involving quilts, ritualistic transformation, and a queer salior and mermaid.Katy Pyle is a multimedia performance artist whose fantastical work has been seen all over NYC. She often creates in collaborative processes, such as with "dance bands"-asubtout(with Eleanor Hullihan), JERK(with Hullihan, Brooks, and Jillian Pena), and Dirty Power(with Workum and Weena Pauly). She has performed in projects by Jennifer Allen, Ivy Baldwin, Faye Driscoll, John Jasperse, Karinne Keithley, Young Jean Lee, Jennifer Monson, Sara Smith, Anna Sperber, and Katie Workum.  

Jessica Cook will be presenting a mixed media performance with collaborators The ashcan “Orchestra.” This solo will contain a cumulative representation of the artist’s endeavors in sculpture, drawing, and wiggling. The ashcan “Orchestra” is simultaneously the work of composer p. spadine, a large collection of toy and real instruments, and a revolving performance ensemble based in Brooklyn, NY.   Jessica Cook is a Brooklyn based artist originally from Durham, North Carolina. She graduated from SUNY Purchase from the conservatory of dance in 2005. Since graduating she has worked with Noemie Lafrance, Hilary Easton & Co, Gallim Dance Company, Eagle Ager, Sidra Bell Dance NY, Regina Rocke, Holly Faurot & Sarah Paulson, Chase Granoff, Christine Elmo, Anneke Hansen, and the cook sisters. She will be performing with Steven Reker at the Kitchen this March.

FEB 27
Melanie Maar & Kenta Nagai / More TBA
After the successful showing of Maar's piece "Spaces and Bones" at The Chocolate Factory of L.I.C.  The rigorous collaboration of Maar and Nagai continues.

Melanie Maar is a New York based choreographer and dancer originally from Vienna, Austria. Her latest piece, Spaces and Bones, a collaboration with Kenta Nagai, premiered at The Chocolate Factory Theater in December 2010. Maar recently co- curated the Movement Research Festival 2010- HARDCORPS. Other choreographies and improvisations have been seen in New York, San Francisco, Vienna, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo and Berlin. Her teachers include Gertraud Maar, Janet Panetta and Daria Fain. She has worked extensively with New York choreographer Luciana Achugar , as well as with RoseAnne Spradlin, Levi Gonzalez, Daria Fain, Luis Lara Malvacias and others.

Kenta Nagai is an audio-visual artist and performer, originally from Niigata Japan. His keen sense of physicality is reflected in his current exploration of the physical properties of sound and its impact on human emotion and the body. This interest has led to numerous collaborations with dancers (Boaz and Anika K Barkan, Daria Fain, DD Dorvillier, Bob Eisen, Zack Fuller and Jennifer Monson among others) throughout his career as an improvisor and performer in New York City and abroad. Nagai has appeared in numerous concerts at venues including Carnegie Hall, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Lincoln Center Out Door Stage, Rubin Museum, Hershhorn Museum at Smithonian Institute, Sculpture Center, Japan Society and the Whitney Museum of American Art.


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