Roulette

Roulette One of the most creative and prolific centers for experimental art in the United States since 1978. Founded in Tribeca, based in downtown Brooklyn.
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Roulette began in 1978 as a spontaneous presentation of work by artists in a loft on West Broadway in Tribeca, and has since evolved into an internationally recognized experimental art center. Now based in Downtown Brooklyn, Roulette supports artists through presenting a substantial and diverse program of experimental music, dance and intermedia, commissioning new work, paying the artists professi

onal fees, and finding artists an audience interested in learning about traditions and developments in these art forms.

We regret to inform you that tonight’s performance of John Zorn: New Masada Quartet has been canceled due to unforeseen ...
05/29/2026

We regret to inform you that tonight’s performance of John Zorn: New Masada Quartet has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.

We are so sorry for the inconvenience, especially given the short notice. For all ticket buyers, please check your email for more information, and please stay tuned for a reschedule date.

Again, we sincerely apologize for the last minute notice and we thank you for your understanding and support.

05/29/2026

wednesday, 6.3, trumpeter presents Being & Becoming + Voices, a new configuration of his longtime project Being & Becoming (with collaborators , , and .tyshawnsorey_official), joined in this iteration by vocalist-instrumentalists Alice Teyssier, , and Mazz Swift. each member of the group is a renowned soloist and composer in their own right—in this performance Peter expands on the group’s rich compositional and instrumental palette, creating an abstract music drama. tickets in bio!

🔥here’s Being & Becoming at Roulette during Long Play Festival in 2025

05/28/2026

on tuesday, 6.2, Child of the Church presents Idiot Plot, a site-specific musical performance featuring an ensemble of string players, piano, saxophone, tablas, and movement. co-founded by director and vocalist and composer , the group has presented their work at Queens Museum, The Kitchen, Yale Law School Library, Saint Peter’s Church, and more. tix in bio!

“An idiot plot is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot.”

video edited by Jacqueline Kramer // music by // performances by

05/28/2026

next monday, 6.1! plays works by composer Eve Beglarian . an Alaska-born collaboration, the evening features a rare performance of The Light is Always Changing, a work developed during Eve’s recent residency in Homer, AK and her travels through the state. 🌄get tickets at roulette.org!

performers include:




Lucas Hung
Alex Corwin
Katie Cox

🎥 here’s Wild Shore New Music playing The Light is Always Changing at University of Alaska in 2025.

05/27/2026

in May’s episode of our podcast we spoke with DoYeon Kim, known for her expansive and pioneering performances and compositions, and for introducing the gayageum, an ancient Korean zither, into contemporary music. trained extensively in jazz and improvisation as well as in the canon of classical Korean music including sanjo, jeongak, and modern gugak, DoYeon has collaborated with Satoshi Takeishi, Tomas Fujiwara, Brandon Lopez, Yuma Uesaka, David Leon, Laura C***s, Henry Fraser, Tyshawn Sorey, Peter Evans, Sam Minaie, Matt Maneri and others.

listen to the full episode on roulette.org (link in bio) or on your favorite podcast streaming service 🎧

video clips, including home vid, from DoYeon’s past performances in the Roulette archive

05/27/2026

tomorrow, 5.28, percussion and piano quartet — , , Laura Barger, and — continue their commissioning series, Currents. the evening features composer and Rome Prize laureate Jonah Haven’s i tell you i want to be one sticking out of the ground like a tongue and Icelandic composer Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir’s Supraseether — a piece that explores the quartet as an organism. get tickets in bio!

clip of Yarn/Wire for Currents 2025 from the Roulette Archive.

tonight 05.26 catch Planet/Tear: Early Warning Systems—a collaborative performance by 15 different musicians, sculptors,...
05/26/2026

tonight 05.26 catch Planet/Tear: Early Warning Systems—a collaborative performance by 15 different musicians, sculptors, ceramicists, filmmakers, and experimental performers to create a living environment of sounding objects and unstable instruments. organized by char jeré .

inspired in part by boundary-pushing collaborations—including Butch Morris and David Hammons, Camille Billops and James Hatch, and Robert Rauschenberg with Jim McGee—the project treats performance as a living system rather than a composition. objects lead, humans follow, signals emerge, and the performance unfolds as a collective act of listening and responding. tickets in bio!

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photos featuring some amazing work by some of the featured artists: Char Jeré + handmade instrument, Yehwan Song’s Big Scroll Time, Michael Candy’s robotic walking chair2, Maggie Boyd’s ceramics, Liz Zito’s paperscreens, Pap Souleye Fall’s performance at CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Sonia Rose Kahn’s collaged projections, Marcus Jahmal’s painting, Taezoo Park’s (Rebirth - I), SÉAN’s Wine on Our Lips, Blood on our Hands

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this tuesday 05.26 catch Planet/Tear: Early Warning Systems—a collaborative performance by 15 different musicians, sculp...
05/23/2026

this tuesday 05.26 catch Planet/Tear: Early Warning Systems—a collaborative performance by 15 different musicians, sculptors, ceramicists, filmmakers, and experimental performers to create a living environment of sounding objects and unstable instruments. organized by char jeré .

inspired in part by boundary-pushing collaborations—including Butch Morris and David Hammons, Camille Billops and James Hatch, and Robert Rauschenberg with Jim McGee—the project treats performance as a living system rather than a composition. objects lead, humans follow, signals emerge, and the performance unfolds as a collective act of listening and responding. tickets in bio!

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photos featuring some amazing work by some of the featured artists: Char Jeré + handmade instrument, Yehwan Song’s Big Scroll Time, Michael Candy’s robotic walking chair2, Maggie Boyd’s ceramics, Liz Zito’s paperscreens, Pap Souleye Fall’s performance at CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Sonia Rose Kahn’s collaged projections, Marcus Jahmal’s painting, Taezoo Park’s (Rebirth - I), SÉAN’s Wine on Our Lips, Blood on our Hands

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NEXT WEDNESDAY 5.27 drummer and Roulette Commissioned Artist Eliza Salem convenes with Edna Girma and to present new ...
05/22/2026

NEXT WEDNESDAY 5.27 drummer and Roulette Commissioned Artist Eliza Salem convenes with Edna Girma and to present new music inspired by bodies of water and the creatures that inhabit them. here’s a bit about how Eliza is fueling their creative juices as of late 🌊⛈️🌳.

slide 1 - photo by Noah Gershwin
slide 3 - Eliza playing with Emmanuel Michael & Jayla Chee at Close-Up

roulette is so excited to share that we’re a 2026 artist choice winner!!we’re among 28 organizations who were chosen by...
05/22/2026

roulette is so excited to share that we’re a 2026 artist choice winner!!

we’re among 28 organizations who were chosen by artists to receive an unrestricted $50K grant from Ruth Arts. this year, artists—including choreographers, visual artists, performers, writers, and musicians—were invited to nominate organizations that are generating and encouraging deep study and strengthening their communities’ critical understanding of and investment in art and ideas.

we’re deeply honored to be among such an impressive group of organizations and to be recognized in this way by artists. thank you Ruth Arts for supporting our work!

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about Ruth Arts: national in scope, Ruth Foundation for the Arts (Ruth Arts) is dedicated to meeting the evolving needs and lived experiences of artists, communities, and arts organizations whose work is anchored by the visual and performing arts. For more information about the awarded organizations, visit rutharts.org.

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