Özün Üsta | percussion
Tomeka Reid (Improviser in residence) | cello

Ayako Kato | dance
Rachel Bersen | dance

Cellist and composer TOMEKA REID has emerged as one of the most original, versatile, and curious musicians in Chicago’s bustling jazz and improvised music community. A 2022 Herb Alpert awardee, 2021 USA Fellow, 2019 Foundation of the Arts and a 2016 3Arts recipient, Reid received her doctorate in music from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2017. In the Fall of 2019 Tomeka Reid received a teaching appointment at Mills College as the Darius Milhaud chair in composition. She is currently the artist in residence with the Moers Jazz Festival.

Rachel Bernsen is a dance and interdisciplinary artist based in Vermont. She’s made multi-disciplinary work for non-performers in collaboration with playwright Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, created multiple performance installations with visual artist Megan Craig, performed with Yvonne Rainer, and worked with the legendary composer Anthony Braxton as performer and choreographer in a number of his works. Since 2011, she is one part of Masters of Ceremony, an interdisciplinary improvisational quartet with dancer Melanie Maar, and multi-instrumentalists/composers Abraham Gomez-Delgado and Taylor Ho Bynum. She's also collaborated with vocalist Kyoko Kitamura, and bagpipes player/composer Matt Welch. Recently her practice has expanded to include hand drawn animation and live action film. Rachel is also a movement educator and certified Alexander Technique teacher. www.rachelbernsen.com

Ayako Kato. Called “moving everyday sculptures, artfully cast in naturalness” (Luzerner Zeitung, Switzerland), Ayako Kato is a kinetic philosopher/poet and contemporary choreographer/dancer originally from Japan. Her project, Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape, started 1998, is in deep collaboration with live music and grounded on the principles of f?ry?, Japanese for “wind flow”, cyclical transformation and human motion in nature. She collaborated with more than sixty musician-composers, and has toured throughout the US, Japan, and Europe. In September 2022, she toured Europe with Suzuribako music and dance ensemble. In July 2022, she premiered "LUCA?the Last Universal Common Ancestor/Chromosome Dance", a site-specific piece for three dancers, as a 3Arts Residency Fellow and guest artist at Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA, as part of the Marcus Festival: Claiming Space. She received a 2022 Esteemed Artist Award from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the High Concept Labs Fellowship 2021-2022, the 2021 Artist Fellowship Award in Choreography by the Illinois Arts Council, the Trillium Arts 2021 ACE Fellowship in Dance, and the Best of Dance 2020 in SeeChicagoDance. She is also a recipient of a Links Hall Co-MISSION Fellowship, a residency at Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France in 2018, a 2016 3Arts Award in Dance, a 2016 Meier Achievement Award, and Top 5 Chicago Choreographers of 2016 by Newcity Stage, and a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award.

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