Rubiks Collective | A Book of Hours

FREE PERFORMANCE

A Book of Hours is a meditation on the mystery of time: a live multimedia performance combining stop-motion animation, screen dance projections and a quirky live musical score from a quartet of choreographed musicians.

With a quartet for toothbrushes, vegetables swirling in stop-motion and wind-up toys whirring across the stage, this revelatory new work is a triumph of imagination from a team of award-winning Victorian artists.

Created by composer Kate Neal, choreographer Gerard Van Dyck, filmmaker Sal Cooper and performed by new music ensemble Rubiks Collective, A Book of Hours explores how we divide our time and spend our days.

New arrangements of works by Baroque classical composer Couperin (1668-1733) sit alongside distinctively contemporary compositions featuring synthesisers, reception bells, cardboard boxes and speaking clocks.

A sonic and visual feast for the senses, A Book of Hours is full of moments to surprise and delight audiences of all ages.

Time collapses, days invert and nights implode.

Tick tock, tick tock. Watch it all unwind…

Reviews

“Call it dance or art music or just live performance. Whatever it is – A Book of Hours is the best kind of puzzle.”

— ★★★★ The Age

“…a spectacular intertwining of artforms… clever and entertaining for all.”

— Classikon

Details

This performance is generously supported by the New Music Studio (The University of Melbourne).

Tickets are free but registration is essential.