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Returning to New York! - Stephanie Skura - Award Winning Choreographer!

For Immediate Release:
Contact: Lucy@roulette.org

Roulette Presents:

Award Winning Choreographer

Stephanie Skura

Two Huts

"Stephanie Skura constructs new meanings even as she

demolishes musical & choreographic preconceptions." (New York Times)

March 15, 16, 17 & 18, 8pm

Artist talk: March 13, 7pm

What: Stephanie Skura Two Huts. Feat: Debra Wanner, Tom Cayler & Todd Jefferson Moore.
When:  Artists talk: Tuesday, March 13, 7pm. Performances: March 15, 16, 17 & 18, 8pm
Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR
Cost: $15/10 members/students/seniors, Artist talk: $5/Free for performance ticket holders
Info: www.roulette.org / 917.267.0368

Brooklyn, NY: Roulette presents award winning choreographer and director Stephanie Skura in her first major NYC appearance  in almost 20 years with piece Two Huts with performances March 15, 16, 17 & 18, also, there will be an artists talkback on Tuesday, March 13 at 7pm. Hailed by Dance Ink as "a great American experimentalist" Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim. Her stellar reputation for adventurous work precedes her while her unique skills and approach have seen her teach and train performance at some of the worlds most prestigious colleges and studios. Skura has been passionate about empowering and celebrating individual diversity and finding ways to do this through dance.  Her rehearsal process involves unpeeling methods: revealing subconscious layers  both strange and familiar. For decades, she has researched, practiced, and taught approaches to movement  that allow dance to be a manifestation of the complexity of our consciousness. "A modern dance court jester, Stephanie Skura makes one laugh at her dances. then, like the best of jesters, she makes one think." - New York Times

Two Huts extends Skura's 25 years' research in free-associative forms of movement into theater & text, revealing underlying realms startlingly familiar. Skura has been developing the work for the past two years in residencies at Juniata College, PA, and in Seattle with the support of 4Culture. Two Huts is the culmination of her research of the past decade into radical language, theater & voice, integrated with her lifelong experiments in movement & performance. This work has been selected as a sponsored USA Artist Project, & is partially supported by Seattle 4Culture, as well as by Roulette.

About Stephanie Skura
Stephanie Skura, has choreographed, directed, taught and performed for 30 years, in 13 countries and 30 states, investigating boundaries of dance, theater and performance. She directed a New York City-based touring company for 15 years, received an inaugural "Bessie" Award, and has been honored with seven Choreography Fellowships and five Dance company Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as grants and commissions from many corporations, foundations, government agencies and performing companies worldwide.  Her work has toured at major festivals in Zurich, Vienna, Lisbon, Budapest, Italy & Vancouver, and at such US venues as the Walker Art Center In Minneapolis, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and in New York City at Dance Theater Workshop, the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, Central Park Summerstage, Danspace, and Performance Space 122. An innovative teacher & mentor, she was on graduate faculty at the University of Washington School of Drama for 5 years, on core faculty of the Seattle Skinner Releasing Institute and Teacher Certification Program for 14 years, and is creator and director of Open Source Forms Teacher Certification, with centers in Seattle and New Zealand. She holds a BFA & MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. With a collaborative approach to performance-making, she has pioneered & refined methods for involving performers in discovery & development of material. She was an early researcher of movement-based interdisciplinary work, inspiring students & professionals worldwide.  From 2004-2010, Skura was Associate Artistic Director of The Gravity Project, a movement theater company affiliated with Juniata College in PA.

About Debra Wanner
Producing collaborator Debra Wanner is a founding member of Skura's NYC company and has been instrumental in fundraising becoming a co-sponsor through her own non-profit Interaction Arts.

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.

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Roulette Presents: DANCEroulette Feb 1 - 5, 8PM

For immediate release/Listings Request:
Contact: Lucy@roulette.org

Roulette Presents:

DANCEroulette

Feb 1 - 5, 8PM

What: DANCEroulette Featuring: Diana Crum, Yanira Castro, David Thomson, Bob Eisen, Laurie Berg, Deborah Black, Cori Olinghouse, Ana Keilson, Tess Dworman, Jessica Ray, Clarinda MacLow, Melanie Maar, Julie Alexander, Megan Byrne, Biba Bell.
When: Feb 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all shows are at 8pm
Where: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, 2/3/4/5/A/C/G/D/M/N/R/B/Q trains & the LIRR
Cost: $15/10 members/students/seniors
Info: www.roulette.org / 917.267.0368

Brooklyn, NY: Roulette presents DANCEroulette, a five night festival of performing artists working within movement, sound, spatial design, visual cacophony, choreography, improvisation, ephemeriality, and theatrical re-imagining. These 15 New York-based dance artists arrive at dance and performance through various points of view, and each evening will host three performances of diverse results. Roulette has presented dance since it's earliest days, and is happy to offer artists a larger space to present their work. Viewing dance in the context of a music venue confronts the way we watch music and listen to movement, the similarities and differences of the forms.

Full Schedule of Events

Wednesday,  Feb 1, 8pm
Diana Crum  - If I tell myself I have enough time, then I can be with you - Choreographed by Diana Crum, performed by Erin Cairns Cella & Kathy Wasik, sound and video by Peter Kerlin
Yanira Castro - HEATHER O - Direction & Choreography by Yanira Castro - Performance by Kimberly Young
David Thomson - Velvet - a collaboration/introduction that will include mayhem, desire, thoughts and consequences

Thursday,  Feb 2, 8pm
Bob Eisen - For Lulu - Choreography and performance by Bob Eisen
Laurie Berg - betInween, Choreography and performance by Laurie Berg with visual artist and longtime collaborator, Liliana Dirks-Goodman.  
Deborah Black - I Would Rather See My Daughter Dead Than on the Stage - Choreography and performance by Deborah Black and Davina Cohen

Friday,  Feb 3, 8pm
Jessica Ray- Point and Head, Jessica Ray and Jessica Cook. Directed by Jessica Ray
Performed by the both.
Cori Olinghouse - Ghost lines Created and performed by Cori Olinghouse, costume design:  Andy Jordan
Ana Keilson - A dance based upon an ongoing project which uses the question, "What has Judson given my generation?"

Saturday,  Feb 4, 8pm
Tess Dworman - Bear Enters, Scoffs Performed by Tess Dworman and Caitlin Marz
Clarinda MacLow- Tribute- Mac Low will perform short improvisation scores from dance luminaries Jennifer Monson, Yvonne Meier, and Linda Austin, and one score from a surprise guest.
Melanie Maar - Same Selves, Inspired by works on metamorphosis and splitting images, this dance is guided by visual musicality and light.

Sunday, Feb 5, 8pm
Julie Alexander - From nothing real, Choreography and Performance by Julie Alexander
Vocal Composition and Performance by Gelsey Bell
Megan Byrne - Untitled dance for Stephanie Waddell Choreographed by Megan Byrne, Performed by Stephanie Waddell, Music performed by Charly & Margaux
Biba Bell - Mouth (w/ objects) Choreography and Performance by Biba Bell with music by Ben Hall

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.

 

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U.S. Premiere Multimedia Concert of Olivier Messiaen’s Modern Orchestral Masterpiece DES CANYONS AUX ÉTOILES To Be Performed by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn

U.S. Premiere Multimedia Concert of Olivier Messiaen's Modern Orchestral Masterpiece

DES CANYONS AUX ÉTOILES

To Be Performed by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn

 

DES CANYONS AUX ÉTOILES

The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra

with conductor Jeffrey Tate, piano soloist Francesco Tristano, and video installation by Daniel Landau

Monday, January 23, 2012, at 8:00PM, $20

at Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY)

 

 

On Monday, January 23, 2012, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, with Chief Conductor Jeffrey Tate, will perform a new multimedia concert of Olivier Messiaen's modern orchestral masterpiece Des canyons aux étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) at Roulette in downtown Brooklyn, one of New York's newest venues for adventurous contemporary music and new media performances.

 

Olivier Messiaen's 1974 Des canyons aux étoiles (From the Canyons to the Stars) was commissioned for Lincoln Center by Alice Tully to commemorate the American Bicentennial.

 

In 2010, the Hamburg Symphony presented the first concert with the modern video presentation created by acclaimed Israeli visual artist and composer Daniel Landau, who has taken Messiaen's spacious, picturesque tableaux of nature and the divine as starting points for a cautionary essay on humanity's looming destruction of our fragile world.

 

The Hamburger Abendblatt said it had "the emotional intensity, visual power and bewildering complexity of a true myth."

 

Chief Conductor Jeffrey Tate says, "The production is a total event. Particularly in the context of a work that was actually commissioned for America, it seems wonderful to be able to bring this work back to America enriched, we hope, with this extraordinary visual element as well." The conductor describes the evening as "a mix of a walk through a modern art exhibition and a concert."

           

Three screens suspended above the orchestra display Landau's haunting visions of creatures venturing from primeval landscape into dystopian vistas. The filmed elements — which have shades of directors David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) and music videos — are controlled by Landau during the performance. He also created modern depictions of the Catholic images and ideas that permeate Messiaen's work.

 

The work is scored for a small but diverse orchestra of 44 musicians with a formidable percussion section that includes a wind machine and a geophone (Messiaen's own invention), a metal drum with swirling pellets inside. The ensemble presents unique logistical and acoustical challenges, yet will fit Roulette's flexible space well.

 

The piano soloist in this concert is Francesco Tristano, an artist who is no stranger to unusual repertoire and alternative venues. This young pianist and composer has appeared at Le Poisson Rouge with pianist Bruce Brubaker and collaborated with Detroit techno legend Carl Craig.