Mo(ve)ment

Benno Hübner was born in Zwolle, the Netherlands. He studied at the Dance Academy in Arnhem and the renowned school 'Amor de Dios' in Madrid. He developed his own dance vocabulary in which his academic background, his Indonesian roots and personal body language are intermingled. As his career developed, he focused on producing and performing multi-disciplinary theatre pieces in which the dialogue between various art disciplines such as dance, theatre, music and visual arts is explored. He is responsible for the productions Syrinx, Circles and Ruis.

Tali Farch was born in Haifa, Israel. She studied for seven years in the Netherlands, at the Vrije Academie in The Hague and the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Subsequently, she began her own studio for the production of animations for television, commercials and video productions – first in Tel Aviv and from 1998 onwards in the Netherlands. Recently, her work was exhibited in various galleries and musea. Her impressionistic style and expressive images developed within Mo(ve)ment into live painting, a style of painting that reminds one of the tradition of action painting. In Mo(ve)ment, the audience not only sees the result of the painters' work, it is the actual witness of the creative process.

Royce Deans studied art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. His work is characterized by a combination of abstract lines and figurative images. Subject of his work is often the human body - even when he paints a landscape or a still life. His color blindness is not noticeable in his use of colors, but his paintings have a rich texture. His work was debuted in Amsterdam with Mo(ve)ment in September 2007.

The music of pianist and shakuhachi player Steve Cohn has continually and dramatically evolved. A native of San Francisco, he performed as a blues pianist in Los Angeles, where he began studying the shakuhachi flute at UCLA. He then spent two years in Japan returning to study at San Francisco State University where he worked with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Wayne Peterson, and also appeared as a jazz pianist performing with musicians such as Eddie Henderson, and Sonny Simmons. Ultimately he moved to New York where he has devoted himself to totally improvised music, combining unconventional use of non-western winds and percussion with a unique piano style. Cohn has performed his own works in venues including New York City's Miller Theatre, New Works October Series, Fiesta International USSR, the Newport JVC Festival, Sweet Basil, The Great American Music Hall, World Shakuhachi Festival 1998, the Ottawa Festival; appeared in multimedia performances with Japanese Taiko drummers and the Elinor Coleman Dance Ensemble. He was also commissioned to compose and perform an original work that premiered with the Watanabe Dance Company in Japan. Cohn has performed and recorded with musicians including Reggie Workman, Jason Huang, Tom Varner, Fred Hopkins, Karl Berger, Oliver Lake, William Parker and Bob Stewart. www.thestevecohn.com

Dan Godston teaches, writes, and composes music and plays the trumpet and other instruments in Chicago. Last year his trio -- Ways & Means -- released their debut CD, entitled “Fire of Dream”; this recording features a collaboration with poet Ed Roberson. From 2005 till 2006 The Ways & Means Trio hosted a monthly series at Muse Café called Lower & Upper Limits, which showcased collaborations between poets and musicians. Dan has worked with Jim Ryan, Daniele Cavallanti, Tiziano Tononi, Joel Wanek, Jayve Montgomery, Eric Glick Rieman, Jerome Bryerton, Mankwe Ndosi, Douglas Ewart, Paul Hartsaw, Mars Williams, and other musicians. Last year Godston founded the Chicago Calling Festival, which provides opportunities for Chicago based artists to collaborate with artists living in other locations around the world.

Joel Wanek is an upright bassist, photographer and educator in Chicago. He organizes the annual Low End Theory: Festival of Improvised Bass Music, now in its fourth year.

• Monday, March 31 at Links Hall, 8 p.m.
  3435 N. Sheffield, #207
  Chicago, IL 60657
  telephone: 773.281.0824
  www.linkshall.org
  $15

• Tuesday, April 1 at Peter Jones Gallery, 8 p.m.
  1806 West Cuyler St., 2nd Floor
  Chicago IL 60613
  telephone: 773.472.6725
  www.peterjonesgallery.com
  $10 suggested donation
• 1st set: The Matter and Memory Trio
  Steve Cohn -- shakuhachi & keyboards
  Guillermo Gregorio -- clarinets & saxophone
  Jerome Bryerton -- percussion
  2nd set: Mo(ve)ment
  3rd set: combined groups
• The Peter Jones Gallery is one block north of Irving Park Rd., a half block west of Ravenswood Rd. It is close to the Irving Park station on the CTA’s brown line.

• Wednesday, April 2 at Peter Jones Gallery, 8 p.m.
  1806 West Cuyler St., 2nd Floor
  Chicago IL 60613
  telephone: 773.472.6725
  www.peterjonesgallery.com
  $10 suggested donation
• 1st set: Mo(ve)ment
• 2nd set: Yuganaut (www.yuganaut.com)
  Stephen Rush -- keyboards, electronics, toys
  Tom Abbs -- upright bass, cello, didgeridoo, violin
  Geoff Mann -- drums, cornet, mandolin
• 3rd set: combined groups

• Thursday, April 3 at Brown Rice
  4432 N. Kedzie Ave., 1st floor
  Chicago, IL 60625
  www.brownricemusic.org
  $10 suggested donation
• 1st set: Steve Cohn (shakuhachi & keyboards) & Jayve Montgomery (electronics)
  duo
• 2nd set: Mo(ve)ment
• Brown Rice is on Kedzie Avenue, about a half block north of Montrose. It is close to the Kedzie station on the CTA Brown line.