Roulette began in 1978 as a spontaneous presentation of work by artists in a loft on West Broadway. Roulette is now an internationally recognized experimental contemporary art center, fulfilling its mission to support artists through presenting a substantial and diverse program of experimental music, movement, and media, commissioning new work, paying the artists professional fees, and and making avant-garde performance available to an ever-expanding audience. Roulette has developed programs that are direct responses to the particular needs of artists for money, information, and rehearsal space, and that also serve the public. Roulette has broadened audiences for this kind of work through online programming to reach audiences all over the world.