{"id":346,"date":"2010-10-02T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/10\/manhattan_music_loft_roulette\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:47","slug":"manhattan_music_loft_roulette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/10\/manhattan_music_loft_roulette.html","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan music &#8220;loft&#8221; Roulette takes big chance on Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roulette, since 1978 a formerly humble Manhattan-based presenter of avant-garde &#8220;intermedia,&#8221; has signed a 20-year lease on a former YWCA art deco 600-seat theater in Brooklyn. <s>This&nbsp;<\/s>&nbsp;Next weekend (Oct. 7, 8, 9) is the space&#8217;s three-night benefit &#8220;Easy Not Easy,&#8221; assigning emerging (read: little known) artists presumably simple scores by such its longtime stalwarts as Pauline Oliveros and John Zorn. Read more all about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/cityarts.info\/2010\/09\/28\/taking-a-gamble\/\">my column in City Arts &#8211; New York<\/a> . . .&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email or  RSS<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roulette, since 1978 a formerly humble Manhattan-based presenter of avant-garde &#8220;intermedia,&#8221; has signed a 20-year lease on a former YWCA art deco 600-seat theater in Brooklyn. This&nbsp;&nbsp;Next weekend (Oct. 7, 8, 9) is the space&#8217;s three-night benefit &#8220;Easy Not Easy,&#8221; assigning emerging (read: little known) artists presumably simple scores by such its longtime stalwarts as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1029,1028,1031,1027,1030,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-easy-not-easy","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-intermedia","10":"tag-john-zorn","11":"tag-pauline-oliveros","12":"tag-roulette","13":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":551,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/09\/551.html","url_meta":{"origin":346,"position":0},"title":"Roulette: &#8220;old&#8221; new music\/dance space moves to central Brooklyn","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"September 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My new column at CityArts-New York is about Roulette, the\u00c2\u00a0new music\/new dance performance space, started in downtown Manhattan but moved to a coolly refurbished theater near a major Brooklyn transportation hub. 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