2 evenings of Composition and Movement: Nina Winthrop & Jon Gibson / Deborah Gladstein & Garth Stevenson

Brooklyn, NY: Roulette presents two evenings of composition and movement featuring Gibson & Nina Winthrop, November 18 and  Deborah Gladstein & Garth Stevenson, November 19. Both pairs work intensely together to explore the unique connection between movement and sound.

Nina Winthrop & Jon Gibson, November 18, 8pm
Nina Winthrop & Jon Gibson will present two pieces Constraints II and Three Lives and Something both pieces choreographed by Nina Winthrop with original compositions and live performance by Jon Gibson.  Developed during an exciting one month residency at Tokyo's Morishita Studio, Constraints II is the Japanese counterpart to Constraints I and III, created with support from the Asian Cultural Council. Three Lives and Something  features four lanes that separate the dancers’ movements, derived from everyday activities. Throughout the piece, the four dancers move back and forth in the parallel lanes of their physically separated, yet thematically connected lives. JOn Gibson will also perform Duet with dancer Joanna Kotze. Duet will feature original choreography and solo saxophone performance.

Deborah Gladstein & Garth Stevenson, November 19, 8pm
Movement artist Deborah Gladstein and bassist/composer Garth Stevenson collaborate to present In the Shadows a site-specific work celebrating the poetic and mysterious possibilities of movement and sound woven together.  This original piece pays tribute to Roulette's newly renovated historic Art-Deco theater.  Using a travel-sized upright acoustic bass, the musician is free to move with his instrument through space so that the bass itself becomes another “partner” in the dance.   

About the Artists
Choreographer Nina Winthrop formed her company, Nina Winthrop and Dancers, in 1991. Her works have been presented in venues throughout New York City and Los Angeles, including Danspace Project, Joyce SoHo, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Mabou Mines’ Toronada Theater at PS 122, and The Flea Theater. Her dance films have been screened in the US and abroad. Nina was awarded a Bessie Schönberg Choreographers’ Residency at The Yard in 2004, a Dancenow/NYC’s Silo Artist Residency in 2005, and participated in the Schönberg Choreographers Lab at DTW in 2005. Nina is also the curator of Dance Conversations @ The Flea, a performance, film and discussion series. She is on the Board of Directors of New Dance Alliance and Danspace Project. A graduate of Bennington College, Nina danced with Wendy Perron, Susan Rethorst, Yoshiko Chuma, Sally Silvers and Kei Takei, with whom she toured the USA and Japan, and studied with Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay.        

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Gibson Gibson is known for both classical and jazz. He was a founding memeber and performer witht eh Phillip Glass Ensemble and has performed with Terry Riley and Steve Reich, Reichs Reich's 1967 composition Reed Phase was written for Gibson. He has also performed and recorded with other composers, some of them minimalists, including Christian Wolff, David Behrman, Harold Budd, Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski.

Deborah Gladstein is a New York-based experimental movement artist. She has received numerous Choreography Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Sate Council on the Arts, and has appeared on PBS television as part of the “Eye on Dance” series. Described by Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times as “compelling ...mysterious and focused,” her work has been produced and commissioned by some of New York's leading experimental dance venues including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St Mark's Church, the Kitchen and Movement Research at Judson Church. She has also been commissioned by “Dancing in the Streets” to create site-specific works for natural outdoor settings.

Garth Stevenson was born and raised in the breathtaking Canadian Rockies where nature became the common thread through his life and music. He regularly carries his 150-year-old bass to the woods, the beach, the desert, and most recently to the penguins in Antarctica, in search of new music, sounds, and inspirations. His solo bass music uses looping and reverb pedals to create rich layers of sound and melody. His most recent album Flying has been featured on the Main Page and Alternative page of iTunes. In addition to performing his own work, he has played with Jazz legends George Garzone, Joe Lovano, and John Lockwood, as well as on David Letterman, and at music festivals in Europe, Japan, Canada, and South America.

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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