Gloaming Project
creating in light & shadow
Vision:
Gloaming Project is a collaborative, artist-led producing entity rooted in the belief that art is an ongoing, visceral dialogue with existence itself. Founded by director/choreographer Djahari Clark and composer/music director David Kamm, the project creates original, interdisciplinary work in which movement, sound, image, and story are developed in conversation with one another.
Process + Practice:
Our process is intuitive and deeply physical. Rather than beginning with a fixed agenda or a demand for resolution, we work through sensation and curiosity—allowing form and meaning to emerge through collaboration. We are drawn to spaces of ambiguity, where beauty and unease coexist, and where audiences are invited into shared, time-altered experiences.
Drawing from folklore, sound, image, and embodied ways of making meaning, Gloaming Project creates experiences that are at once intimate and expansive. Whether through residencies, workshops, or full productions, our aim is to create spaces where forgotten sensations surface and where we are reminded—briefly and collectively—of what it is to be exquisitely human.
FOUNDERS
Djahari Clark – Producer, Director, Choreographer
Djahari Clark is a multidisciplinary theater artist whose work blends movement, puppetry, shadow, and live music into emotionally charged, visually rich performance experiences. As a director and choreographer, she is drawn to storytelling that unfolds through the body—where narrative emerges from physicality, image, and atmosphere as much as from text.
Trained in Persian Ballet and contemporary dance forms, Djahari was a principal performer with Pars National Ballet for over a decade and studied under Iranian choreographer Abdollah Nazemi. She also trained at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum Academy and holds a BA in Theater Arts from UCLA.
Djahari directed the avant-garde performance group Desert Sin for over twenty years and co-founded Gloaming Project in 2020 as a home for collaborative, process-driven creation. Her work has been presented in venues from around the world. She currently lives and works in the Catskills, where she continues to develop new interdisciplinary projects through residencies, exchanges, and long-term collaborations.
David Kamm – Music Director, Composer, Guitarist
David Kamm is a composer and guitarist whose genre-blurring work draws from punk, folk, jazz, mountain music, and Chinese folk traditions. Known for his expressive, fingerstyle acoustic approach, David creates music that is spare, emotionally resonant, and deeply attuned to narrative and atmosphere.
Emerging from Burlington’s 1990s music scene, he performed with groups such as Famous Potato and The Billionaires before developing a solo practice centered on composition and collaborative performance. His album Saudade has been described as a “modest masterpiece”—rich with emotional clarity and simple truths.
As Music Director for Gloaming Project, David composes and performs original scores that are developed in close dialogue with movement and story. His long-standing collaboration with Djahari Clark includes works such as Cloud Cuckooland, The Ballad Tree, and immersive performance projects, where live music functions not as accompaniment, but as a driving narrative force.