Impending behavior orchestra
music + movement + moment

saturday, may 31, 2025

Arrive at 3:00 PM to Freeark Gallery to view our new exhibition Pause

4:00 PM Enjoy a 45 minute dance and music performance in our Sculpture Garden

This performance will be a quintet featuring:
Barry Bennett & Eric Klotz of Grape Juice Plus, Mindy Meyers, Chloe Bigelow, and Lucy Vurusic Riner.

The Impending Behavior Orchestra is pleased to present an improvisational Music/Dance performance in the Sculpture Garden of the RAC.

This performance will be a quintet featuring:
Barry Bennett & Eric Klotz of Grape Juice Plus, Mindy Meyers, Chloe Bigelow, and Lucy Vurusic Riner.

ABOUT IBO

The Impending Behavior Orchestra is a modular sound / light/ movement improvisational performance group based in Chicagoland led by musician/composer/sound designer Barry Bennett and originally founded with video artist, Kristin Reeves circa 2006. IBO is modular in the sense that it can manifest itself in many forms and purposes. As few as two or as many as 10 collaborators, IBO can manifest as a concert in a club, an interactive piece of dance theater, a component of a full theatrical production, full on frenzy or as still as a gallery installation.
IBO is interested in the impulse of the artist and how it makes them behave in the ritual of live performance.
Does the idiosyncratic impulse of the artist/musician/dancer create the vision/behavior, or does the behavior create the idiosyncrasies? Chicken or Egg? Symbiosis?

  • IBO believes in improvisation.

  • IBO believes in chaos and synchronicity walking hand in hand.

  • IBO believes in action / reaction.

  • IBO believes in simultaneous play.

  • IBO believes in ritual.

  • IBO believes in crossing disciplinary boundaries.

  • IBO believes we are members of a tribe.

  • IBO believes in IBO.

  • IBO believes in YOU.