Time Keeps The Drummer

2023 - Present

Each performance is shaped in real-time, making every show different and unpredictable.

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Time Keeps The Drummer, Hong Kong 2025.
Photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices

Time Keeps The Drummer is a durational show for family audiences, performed by 10 children aged 8 to 11, all about time.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.