West Kowloon Cultural District The Box Freespace | WestK FunFest 2025：WestK x Fevered Sleep – Time Keeps The Drummer

Description

A playful, durational performance inviting children, young people and adult companions to reflect on perceptions of time in surprising new ways

In April 2025, join us for Time Keeps The Drummer – an original durational performance created by UK-based independent arts company Fevered Sleep and WestK, in collaboration with twelve Hong Kong children aged between 8 and 11.

Time can be measured by clocks, by sunrises and sunsets, by the ebb and flow of tides, by the changing of the seasons. But what does the concept of time mean to you? Does our experience of time change with age, or when we work or play?

Time Keeps The Drummer is a playful, physical performance with bold visual elements, improvised movement and dance inspired by reflections on time. Performed over a five-hour period, by Hong Kong children of different communities, the performance invites audiences to leave their everyday schedules and routines behind and consider time at their own pace and in new creative ways. 

The performance features live drummer Dean Li alongside a multi-layered sound installation with original music by UK composer Mariam Rezaei.

Time Keeps The Drummer is a collaborative work developed from extended research with people in Hong Kong, and inspired by the personal stories of children and adults living in different time schedules around the city. Ticket holders are free to come and go as they wish during each performance period. 

Time Keeps The Drummer is a Fevered Sleep production, commissioned and co-produced by WestK.

*Approximately 5 hours without intermission