JOSHUA DUMAS

In 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013-2022), Sarah Cameron Sunde stands in a tidal bay for a full tidal cycle as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. The 12 hour video documentation is scored by Joshua Dumas.

Playwrights Horizons Theater School presents: The Witches. Written by: Agnes Borinsky. Directed by: Orion Johnstone. Music and Sound Design by: Joshua Dumas

Commissioned performance inaugurating the opening of Little Island. Sarah Cameron Sunde collaborated with performers and community members to investigate the forces and structures that stand between or connect us to water. Music by Joshua Dumas.

A weekly 30 minute livestream broadcast by Joshua Dumas featuring art, poetry, awe, activism, jokes, and ambient music. Produced from July-October 2020.

Washed up and in a post-solar-storm, Dages Juvelier Keates and Erin Cairns Cella as E/D dance a place turned into a repetition compulsion. Score: Jascha Narveson. Text: Dages Juvelier Keates. Lights: David Glista. Video projections: Joshua Dumas.

A commissioned duet between Dages Juvelier Keates and Alexis Steeves as part of L’intrus, curated by Natasha Marie Llorens. Sound by Joshua Dumas.

A condensed and reworked version of Joshua Dumas’ score for a work-in-progress performance of Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas’ 36 PEAKS at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

A bold new theatrical adaptation of Virgil’s epic Latin poem The Aeneid for the turbulent world in which we live by Oliver Kemeid. Directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Music by Joshua Dumas.

An algorithmic and improvised composition that translates Chicago weather, water, and population data from the last 99 Julys into an ambient underscore with brief melodies representing 2017-1918.

Shakespeare’s The Tempest, set outdoors in nature in a promenade performance. Directed by Erica Wray. Music by Joshua Dumas.

A dance film conceived by and starring Elizabeth June Bergman. Directed, filmed, and edited by Kaitlyn Busbee. Directorial assistance from Mark Stastny. Music by Joshua Dumas.

A four-channel audio composition, by Joshua Dumas, exploring translation, memory, and avian mass extinction in the Anthropocene, installed in the Lincoln Park Conservatory’s Fern Room, curated by Experimental Sound Studio.

HAM’s Free Your Flocking Clown 3: USA, with Amélie Gaulier, Dages Juvelier Keates, Rain Saukas and Alexis Steeves. Sound by Joshua Dumas

Dages Juvelier Keates creates a performance work on Elizabeth Tubergen’s sculpture Invert in a sound environment by Helene Kazan with a score by Joshua Dumas.

HAM’s Free Your Flocking Clown: SEX, curated by Doug Post, with Amélie Gaulier, Dages Juvelier Keates, Rain Saukas, Alexis Steeves, Claire Astruc. Sound Design: Joshua Dumas

Joshua Dumas, in collaboration with Sarah Cameron Sunde, creates a sound bath for Bloch: a 200 year old tree trunk that Swiss arts duo Com&Com have been touring the globe with since 2011.

A melanchomedy about music, lost love, memory, and literally world-shattering art. Written by Robert Stewart. Directed by Greg Peters. Music by Joshua Dumas.

Based on the novella by Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad tells the story of Penelope, the dutiful wife of wily Odysseus, as she reflects on her life and the events of The Odyssey from beyond the grave.

Expanded and new material based on music composed while in residence at the Watermill Center for Lydian Junction’s “Born for Nothing.”

Remixed Workshop of Caryl Churchill’s Hotel. Directed by Erica Wray. Music by Joshua Dumas

A guided meditation and expanded cinema event. Amateur and industrial films from Chicago Film Archives, edited by Christy LeMaster, come alive through a three projector performance with words by Mairead Case and Ed Crouse, and music by Joshua Dumas.

2014 independent feature film directed by Jerzy Rose, written by Rose and Halle Butler, staring Mike Lopez, Lyra Hill, and Ted Tremper with music by Joshua Dumas.

Crime and Punishment adapted by Kira Obolensky, directed by David Amaral, music by Joshua Dumas

With a ghostly narrator, an orchestral score, three clowns (one of whom sings arias) and a variety of storytelling conceits, New Beast looks back on 20th century America in their third semi-opera.

Inspired by the work of Tony Schwartz, I Am Saying This Right Now is a mix of memories, scenes, and sound art exploring the human compulsion to document our lives.