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to pool resources and to influence each other. From these investigations a theater of phenomena is created through the interaction of talents and technology. No single identity or individual serves as fundamental protagonist or antagonist. In Actual Sho, hero is replaced by 'interactive network' of physical forces and human influences. Behaviors are effected through interventions of sound, light and gravity within the context of orartorio. Performance conventions of the oratorio serve as points of depar-

ture from a form of cultural expression familiar to western audiences - the choral concert - to emerging forms of creative expression which evoke, rather than provoke. Actual Sho bypasses monothematic fundamentalism in favor of a multiplicity of contending realities. The cast includes a vocal ensemble of Afro Jazz/Gospel singers and classically trained Western operatic soloists, a Japanese mime and a Native American Indian, performing a pan-cultural conjuring ceremony. □