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Or, what happens when Sally meets Sondheim.

NOTICE: Event begins promptly at 8PM and there will be no late entry.

As “our favorite queen of the intelligent quirk” (New York Times) — the radical (& iconoclassical) choreographer Sally Silvers — presents her first large group piece since 2009. After decades of her wild, post-Judson experimentation (& after 5 years dancing for Yvonne Rainer), award-winning ‘downtown’ choreography springboards into the witty, wistful sophistication of the Broadway stage. In an extreme mash-up, Silvers puts synchronized swimming, martial arts, roller derby, children’s games, billiards, ice dancing & other instructional material into the mix at Roulette’s gorgeous new Brooklyn space. With a half-dozen Stephen Sondheim musicals as a focus for her madcap lens of off-kilter, playful, inventive dance, BONOBO MILKSHAKE makes for a sexy fresh species of movement art.

Starring an ensemble of 7 dancers (Aaron Draper, Elisa Osborne, Miriam Parker, Jeremy Pheiffer, Veraalba Santa, Christopher Williams & Silvers) joined by  “swing cast” dancers Edisa Weeks, Jonathan Kinzel, Carolyn Hall, Rebekah Windmiller, Dylan Crossman, and Daniel Madoff and the beguiling Obie winning actor, David Greenspan.  Original soundscape & text by Bruce Andrews, paired with experimental composer, Michael Schumacher.  Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy and lighting by Kathy Kaufmann.

 

ALSO SEE:

Wednesday, November 28
Thursday, November 29
Friday, November 30
Saturday, December 1

Full Description:

Or, what happens when Sally meets Sondheim.

NOTICE: Event begins promptly at 8PM and there will be no late entry.

As “our favorite queen of the intelligent quirk” (New York Times) — the radical (& iconoclassical) choreographer Sally Silvers — presents her first large group piece since 2009. After decades of her wild, post-Judson experimentation (& after 5 years dancing for Yvonne Rainer), award-winning ‘downtown’ choreography springboards into the witty, wistful sophistication of the Broadway stage. In an extreme mash-up, Silvers puts synchronized swimming, martial arts, roller derby, children’s games, billiards, ice dancing & other instructional material into the mix at Roulette’s gorgeous new Brooklyn space. With a half-dozen Stephen Sondheim musicals as a focus for her madcap lens of off-kilter, playful, inventive dance, BONOBO MILKSHAKE makes for a sexy fresh species of movement art.

Starring an ensemble of 7 dancers (Aaron Draper, Elisa Osborne, Miriam Parker, Jeremy Pheiffer, Veraalba Santa, Christopher Williams & Silvers) joined by  “swing cast” dancers Edisa Weeks, Jonathan Kinzel, Carolyn Hall, Rebekah Windmiller, Dylan Crossman, and Daniel Madoff and the beguiling Obie winning actor, David Greenspan.  Original soundscape & text by Bruce Andrews, paired with experimental composer, Michael Schumacher.  Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy and lighting by Kathy Kaufmann.

 

ALSO SEE:

Wednesday, November 28
Thursday, November 29
Friday, November 30
Saturday, December 1

Full Description:

Or, what happens when Sally meets Sondheim.

NOTICE: Event begins promptly at 8PM and there will be no late entry.

As “our favorite queen of the intelligent quirk” (New York Times) — the radical (& iconoclassical) choreographer Sally Silvers — presents her first large group piece since 2009. After decades of her wild, post-Judson experimentation (& after 5 years dancing for Yvonne Rainer), award-winning ‘downtown’ choreography springboards into the witty, wistful sophistication of the Broadway stage. In an extreme mash-up, Silvers puts synchronized swimming, martial arts, roller derby, children’s games, billiards, ice dancing & other instructional material into the mix at Roulette’s gorgeous new Brooklyn space. With a half-dozen Stephen Sondheim musicals as a focus for her madcap lens of off-kilter, playful, inventive dance, BONOBO MILKSHAKE makes for a sexy fresh species of movement art.

Starring an ensemble of 7 dancers (Aaron Draper, Elisa Osborne, Miriam Parker, Jeremy Pheiffer, Veraalba Santa, Christopher Williams & Silvers) joined by  “swing cast” dancers Edisa Weeks, Jonathan Kinzel, Carolyn Hall, Rebekah Windmiller, Dylan Crossman, and Daniel Madoff and the beguiling Obie winning actor, David Greenspan.  Original soundscape & text by Bruce Andrews, paired with experimental composer, Michael Schumacher.  Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy and lighting by Kathy Kaufmann.

 

ALSO SEE:

Wednesday, November 28
Thursday, November 29
Friday, November 30
Saturday, December 1

 

 

Full Description:

Or, what happens when Sally meets Sondheim.

NOTICE: Event begins promptly at 8PM and there will be no late entry.

As “our favorite queen of the intelligent quirk” (New York Times) — the radical (& iconoclassical) choreographer Sally Silvers — presents her first large group piece since 2009. After decades of her wild, post-Judson experimentation (& after 5 years dancing for Yvonne Rainer), award-winning ‘downtown’ choreography springboards into the witty, wistful sophistication of the Broadway stage. In an extreme mash-up, Silvers puts synchronized swimming, martial arts, roller derby, children’s games, billiards, ice dancing & other instructional material into the mix at Roulette’s gorgeous new Brooklyn space. With a half-dozen Stephen Sondheim musicals as a focus for her madcap lens of off-kilter, playful, inventive dance, BONOBO MILKSHAKE makes for a sexy fresh species of movement art.

Starring an ensemble of 7 dancers (Aaron Draper, Elisa Osborne, Miriam Parker, Jeremy Pheiffer, Veraalba Santa, Christopher Williams & Silvers) joined by  “swing cast” dancers Edisa Weeks, Jonathan Kinzel, Carolyn Hall, Rebekah Windmiller, Dylan Crossman, and Daniel Madoff and the beguiling Obie winning actor, David Greenspan.  Original soundscape & text by Bruce Andrews, paired with experimental composer, Michael Schumacher.  Costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy and lighting by Kathy Kaufmann.

 

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Every other Monday in July and August “EVERYTHING” happens at ROULETTE!

ROULETTE’S SUMMER SERIES of DANCE / MUSIC / MULTIMEDIA performances and collaborations.

Artists and info below:

AUGUST 27th:

• Felicia Ballos, Elisa Santiago & Ray Roy: UNCONDITIONAL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
• Sally Silvers & Jim Staley
• Darkminster

 

UNCONDITIONAL SATISFACTION GUARANTEED is an aura specific work that traverses elements of both place and nature.  It is an exploration of a suburban vastness, with its controlled environs, that is at the same time nestled in the wooded lushness and wisdom of the Hudson Valley.  Fantasies emerge through video, movement, and objects of what could be possibly going on behind the landscaping and into the wild.

Felicia Ballos has been allowing the experiment of raising a family, while living and traveling in a DIY bus home conversion, to shift her dance based art processes.  After many years of living as a choreographer and performer based in New York City, Ballos is currently finding ritual through labor, the sacred of the everyday, and how movement connects all beings.
DARKMINSTER
O, May God have mercy on your mortal souls.
The Dark Lorde duped Buckminster.  And out of the mire a malevolent force has entered the hollowed corporal vessels that once belonged to that very same beloved triad.  From their haunted horns an ominous force emanates.  
Buckminster, once a beacon of hope and order in this chaotic life, has been transformed into DARKMINSTER, the hideous, caped, evil-doer =p  more sinister than anything upon which the world has ever laid eye.
Suddenly, utopia perishes, order unravels, causes no longer precede effects, and sometimes up is down.  Down, up.  Uuuuuuup, down.........    DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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$15 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



4 nights of movement-centered, on-the-spot collaborations with Theater Directors,Choreographers, Coaches,& Instructors form diverse fields and backgrounds to construct new performance compositions live each night on the spot.




Each collaborative 'team' will work on and with sugar-shaking genre performers (different each night) from dance, theater, sports, burlesque, and more, to create 3 or 4 works-in-progress per night in front of you: the audience.




Participants (subject to change):

Choreographers: Monica Bill Barnes, Pat Catterson, Terry Creach, Maura Donahue, Muna Tseng
Directors: Theresa Buchheister, Dan Safer, Gayle Stahlhuth, Yves Musard





Sally Silvers has been making dances for 30 years & her association with Roulette goes back almost as far. She has performed and taught (improvisation, composition, repertory) nationally & internationally. Her theoretical writing, scores, and poetry have appeared in several journals including The Drama Review, an anthology of new writings by women published by Illinois University Press, and many poetry magazines. Silvers has received support for her choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts six times, twice from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Project for collaborations with John Zorn and Bruce Andrews, from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and from a Guggenheim Fellowship. Silvers is a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" winner, has co-directed 2 dance films, Little Lieutenant and Mechanics of the Brain, and choreographed 3 musicals for the Sundance Theater Festival in Utah. She developed her concept of "live choreography" (making work live in front of an audience) in the mid-90's. From 2006 to 2011, she danced in the recent new works of Yvonne Rainer.

Full Description:

$15 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



4 nights of movement-centered, on-the-spot collaborations with Theater Directors,Choreographers, Coaches,& Instructors form diverse fields and backgrounds to construct new performance compositions live each night on the spot.




Each collaborative 'team' will work on and with sugar-shaking genre performers (different each night) from dance, theater, sports, burlesque, and more, to create 3 or 4 works-in-progress per night in front of you: the audience.




Participants (subject to change & will vary each night):

Choreographers: Wally Cardona, Pooh Kaye, Bebe Miller, Sarah Skaggs, Rosalind Newman
Directors: Anne Bogart, Jeff Jones, George Emilio Sanchez, Tony Torn





Sally Silvers has been making dances for 30 years & her association with Roulette goes back almost as far. She has performed and taught (improvisation, composition, repertory) nationally & internationally. Her theoretical writing, scores, and poetry have appeared in several journals including The Drama Review, an anthology of new writings by women published by Illinois University Press, and many poetry magazines. Silvers has received support for her choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts six times, twice from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Project for collaborations with John Zorn and Bruce Andrews, from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and from a Guggenheim Fellowship. Silvers is a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" winner, has co-directed 2 dance films, Little Lieutenant and Mechanics of the Brain, and choreographed 3 musicals for the Sundance Theater Festival in Utah. She developed her concept of "live choreography" (making work live in front of an audience) in the mid-90's. From 2006 to 2011, she danced in the recent new works of Yvonne Rainer.

Full Description:

$15 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



4 nights of movement-centered, on-the-spot collaborations with  Theater Directors,Choreographers, Coaches,& Instructors form diverse fields and backgrounds to construct new performance compositions live each night on the spot.




Each collaborative 'team' will work on and with sugar-shaking genre performers (different each night) from dance, theater, sports, burlesque, and more, to create 3  or 4 works-in-progress per night in front of you:  the audience.  




Participants (subject to change):

Choreographers: Jane Comfort, Douglas Dunn, Keely Garfield, Patricia Hoffbauer, Jonathan Kinzel
Directors: Damien Gray, Scott Lyons, Mike Taylor, Lizzie Oleskar




Sally Silvers has been making dances for 30 years & her association with Roulette goes back almost as far. She has performed and taught (improvisation, composition, repertory) nationally & internationally. Her theoretical writing, scores, and poetry have appeared in several journals including The Drama Review, an anthology of new writings by women published by Illinois University Press, and many poetry magazines. Silvers has received support for her choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts six times, twice from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Project for collaborations with John Zorn and Bruce Andrews, from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and from a Guggenheim Fellowship. Silvers is a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" winner, has co-directed 2 dance films, Little Lieutenant and Mechanics of the Brain, and choreographed 3 musicals for the Sundance Theater Festival in Utah. She developed her concept of "live choreography" (making work live in front of an audience) in the mid-90's. From 2006 to 2011, she danced in the recent new works of Yvonne Rainer.

Full Description:

$15 General Admission

$10 Members/Students/Seniors



4 nights of movement-centered, on-the-spot collaborations with Theater Directors,Choreographers, Coaches,& Instructors form diverse fields and backgrounds to construct new performance compositions live each night on the spot.




Each collaborative 'team' will work on and with sugar-shaking genre performers (different each night) from dance, theater, sports, burlesque, and more, to create 3 or 4 works-in-progress per night in front of you: the audience.




Participants (subject to change):

Choreographers: Neil Greenberg, Sara East Johnson, Gus Solomons, Jr., Arturo Vidich, Bill Young
Directors: John Jesurun, Matthew Maguire, Shelley Molad



Sally Silvers has been making dances for 30 years & her association with Roulette goes back almost as far. She has performed and taught (improvisation, composition, repertory) nationally & internationally. Her theoretical writing, scores, and poetry have appeared in several journals including The Drama Review, an anthology of new writings by women published by Illinois University Press, and many poetry magazines. Silvers has received support for her choreography from the National Endowment for the Arts six times, twice from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Project for collaborations with John Zorn and Bruce Andrews, from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and from a Guggenheim Fellowship. Silvers is a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" winner, has co-directed 2 dance films, Little Lieutenant and Mechanics of the Brain, and choreographed 3 musicals for the Sundance Theater Festival in Utah. She developed her concept of "live choreography" (making work live in front of an audience) in the mid-90's. From 2006 to 2011, she danced in the recent new works of Yvonne Rainer.

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"Prime Cuts", a mix 'n max extraordinaire of movement, rhythms, words, saxophonics, and theatrics.

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"MixFest

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"The Exoskeletal Shadow of Laminated Desire" by a trio of Jim Staley, trombone/didjeridu; Sally Silvers, dance; and John Zorn, reeds."

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Movement, percussion, and trumpet coordinated by choreographer Silvers, with Charles K. Noyes, Leo Smith, and other guests.

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"BARKING's performance on self-discipline with movement, improvised music & tapes, theatrical actions, slides, and texts- with guests including John Zorn. "

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Five collaborative pieces of movement composition with language, film, and/or improvised music.