Dust Bowl (2024)

Dust Bowl was an immersive choral work that confronted the ecological and human cost of environmental collapse through voice, movement, and space. Drawing on historical accounts, documentary texts, and newly commissioned music, the performance placed singers in constant motion around the audience, dissolving the boundary between witness and participant. The work unfolded as a living soundscape—at times stark and wind-scoured, at others intimate and fragile—inviting listeners to experience the Dust Bowl not as history, but as a present-day reckoning with climate, displacement, and resilience.

Conceived by Sam Brukhman
Composed by Anthony J Maglione
Directed by Claire Choquette
Art and Projection by Courtney Ware and Lightware Labs