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ADAM
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In Ashley Fure's world, all materials are potent and active
with lives of their own. We often take things for granted,
but Fure does not. She has given them their own voice and
consciousness in "The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects."
This wordless drama, created with her architect brother Adam
Fure and International Contemporary Ensemble, "probes the
animate vitality of matter." The audience sits beneath a canopy
of familiar and exotic objects while performers spur them into
action and singers, like the sirens of mythology, shout and
whisper warnings, luring the audience into an entirely new way
of listening.
A S H L E Y F U R E
Photo: Justin Hoke
16 www.peakperfs.org
