Get Involved: Time Keeps The Drummer
Time Keeps The Drummer Performance, Hong Kong 2025.
Photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices
We’re currently looking for children to be a part of our new project, Time Keeps The Drummer. This new performance will tour the UK in 2025, with each performance involving a cast of local children, who will work with our award-winning artistic directors to create and perform shows at celebrated performing arts venues. The show includes movement/dance, text, and improvisation. It explores ideas about time, rest and play.
The project is open to all children, but being curious and open to new experiences is essential. We are looking for children who love to move and play, but previous dance experience isn’t required. We actively encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent children. To discuss access needs and support before registering for an audition workshop, please email us on admin@feveredsleep.co.uk
To register for an audition workshop to be in our Nottingham shows, please fill out this form by Monday, 14 July.
Time Keeps The Drummer Performance, Hong Kong 2025.
Photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices
Please complete this form to express interest in taking part in the fun and welcoming casting workshop on the 19th and 20th July at FABRIC, Space 2, 2 Dakeyne Street, Nottingham, NG3 2AR
The final performance is on the 1st November as part of Nottdance Festival
Each child in the final cast will receive a small honorarium for their participation.
All cast members must be available for all rehearsals from 10-5pm:
Sunday 12th October
Monday 20th October
Tuesday 21st October
Wednesday 22nd October
Thursday 23rd October
Friday 24th October
Monday 27th October
Tuesday 28th October
Wednesday 29th October
Thursday 30th October
Friday 31st October
Find out more about Time Keeps The Drummer below and via our project page.
Nottingham Casting Information
Time Keeps The Drummer Performance, Hong Kong 2025.
Photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices
About the project
Time Keeps The Drummer is a playful physical performance, full of bold images, improvised movement and dance. It’s performed by 10 children aged 8 to 11. For each show, we recruit a new, local group of children, making every performance unique to its location.
It playfully asks us to ignore the ticking of the clock and invites us to step into a space where time is fluid, joyful, chaotic, and full of wild abandon and limitless possibility.
This brand new show was commissioned by WestK in Hong Kong, premiering there in April 2025.
Through movement, improvisation, projection, music and lighting, these young performers offer their audiences an opportunity to witness an ever-evolving experience. Each performance is shaped in real-time, making every show different and unpredictable. Sometimes it’s like a show; sometimes it’s more like a live gallery installation.
With original compositions by composer Mariam Rezaei, this 5-hour performance invites you to experience time on your own terms. Alongside this music, throughout the entire performance, a single adult drummer playing a motion capture drum kit, improvises percussion in the air. Experienced only through the headphones provided; the drums are the sound of the ceaseless beat of clock time.
Audiences are free to come and go as they please throughout the duration of the piece, to linger, to rest, and to reflect. It’s a show that evolves throughout the day, offering an opportunity to slow down, engage, and enjoy time in all its unpredictable forms.