Repetition Is a Form of Change — Impending Behavior Orchestra — Rhino Fest 2026

Impending Behavior Orchestra presents... “Repetition is a form of Change”
an improvisation for movement and music. One night only at Rhino Fest!

Movement creation by Mindy Meyers, Kristina Fluty, Robert Welcher, Cindy Brandle and Lucy Vurusic Riner. Music by Grape Juice Plus (Barry Bennett and Eric Klotz).

It's IBO’s 20th anniversary as a shapeshifting collective. As we dive head first into maturity, it makes us think... We are always repeating. We are always changing. Repetition is a tool and it erodes. Always Living. Always Dying.

MUSIC * MOVEMENT * MOMENT
Now in its 20th year, The Impending Behavior Orchestra (IBO) is an improvised modular sound/light/movement performance group based in Chicago led by musician/composer/sound designer Barry Bennett and originally founded with video artist Kristin Reeves in 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.

Date: Saturday, October 10th at 7:00pm
Venue: Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble (1650 W. Foster)

Tickets: All Rhino Fest tickets are offered at sliding scale prices, in an effort to make theater more accessible to more people in our communities. We say "pay what you can" and we mean it. Rhino Fest is co-produced by the Curious Theatre Branch and the performance venues. Additional donations are always welcome. 

About the venue: Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble is located at 1650 W Foster Ave in Andersonville, in the same building as Ebenezer Lutheran Church. The performance space is not currently accessible by wheelchair; to enter the auditorium, there are eight steps to a landing, and then eight steps to the entrance. CDE is within walking distance of the Foster (92) and Clark (22) bus lines. Street parking is generally possible nearby, but check signs for permit zones and time-based restrictions. Soft drinks will be available for purchase before shows begin. More information can be found at https://www.danztheatre.org.

About Rhino Fest: The event that became the Rhinoceros Theater Festival began in 1988 as an offshoot of the Bucktown Arts Fest, and in its first year featured just two days of performances, including work by Jenny Magnus and Beau O'Reilly. When the event's founder moved away from Chicago in 1990, he asked a ragtag group of local artists (including Beau O'Reilly and Theatre of the Reconstruction’s Scott Turner) to keep the festival going, and the Rhino Fest was born. The Curious Theatre Branch went on to produce the Rhino across many neighborhoods and venues over the years, with events variously taking place in Wicker Park/Bucktown, Rogers Park, Andersonville and Avondale; at spaces including the Lunar Cabaret and Full Moon Café, the Neo-Futurarium, the Society for New Things, The Garage, The Firehouse, Remains Theatre, and Prop Thtr. In the mid-2000s, Rhino Fest settled at Prop Thtr in Avondale as its long-term base, and Prop and Curious co-produced the festival among a shifting group of curators for many years. Following the closure of Prop's Elston Avenue space in 2020 and a year off during the height of the pandemic, Rhino Fest is once more itinerant, currently producing more than 30 shows at The Labyrinth Club, Chicago Danztheater, and Chicago Dramatists.

https://rhinofest.com/