This Sunday, May 25th at 8:00 PM, Roulette Intermedium hosts the world premiere of Double Twilight, a bold, genre-defying performance work by poet, visual artist, and filmmaker No Land. Commissioned by Roulette for their 2024-2025 season, Double Twilight is a transcendent sonic-poem ritual—a séance of sound, movement, and vision rooted in the avant-garde traditions of downtown New York and ignited by a devotion to spirit, mystery, and collaborative creation.
At once a performance and a metaphysical investigation, Double Twilight invites audiences into a realm where poetry, cinema, and sound collapse into a single, fluid language. No Land is joined by a powerful ensemble of collaborators including Oliver Ray (guitar, electronics), Shahzad Ismaily (bass), Daniel Carter (winds), Miriam Parker (movement), Gabriel Gall (keyboards), Tatianna Overton (voice), and legendary poets Anne Waldman and Louise Landes Levi, among others. Together, they form a “spirit-temple troupe” moving in and out of configuration, their roles as fluid and shifting as the work itself.
In No Land’s hands, the stage becomes a sacred site. Painted scrolls, chalky relics, and typewritten text fragments sprawl across a table transformed into an altar. Poems emerge in trance-like recitation, improvised and intuited in communion with the ensemble. Each performance is unrepeatable, existing in a liminal state of flux—part séance, part score, part dream. The ephemeral quality of the materials mirrors the work’s themes: impermanence, ether, and ecstatic inquiry. The visuals—handmade and shimmering with metallic dust, light, and fragile pigments—are portals to something beyond the veil. This is not performance as entertainment, but as invocation.
A descendent of the NYC avant-garde, No Land continues in the lineage of artists who see art not merely as expression, but as an act of spiritual tuning. Her collaborators are as deeply entrenched in experimental tradition as she is. Ismaily, long dubbed “the musician’s favorite musician,” brings years of boundary-pushing work in improvisation and multi-instrumentalism. Carter, a living legend of the free jazz movement, adds a kaleidoscopic depth. Waldman, a towering figure in American poetry, brings a voice steeped in radical poetics, politics, and sonic ritual.
Together, this ensemble creates something that vibrates beyond definition. Double Twilight is a fever-dream, a compassion-study, a dispatch from the borderlands of reality. It is deeply intuitive and fiercely intellectual, yet never inaccessible—it’s a channeling of something mercurial and collective, with imagination as its organizing principle.
For those unable to attend in person, the performance will livestream for free on YouTube at 8:00 PM and will remain archived for future viewing. But if you’re in New York, there may be no better place to be than inside the sanctuary of Roulette as No Land and her troupe cast their spell.
Come prepared to be transported. This is not a show. This is a tuning.
Show Details:
Roulette – Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, May 25, 2025
8:00 pm // Doors 7pm
$25 advance // $30 doors
$20 Student/Senior (w/ ID, Senior 65+)
