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
Nottingham recruitment workshop: 19th July
Sign-ups are no longer being accepted.
London recruitment workshop: 20th July
Sign-ups are no longer being accepted.
Find out more about Time Keeps The Drummer below and via our project page.
Time Keeps The Drummer Performance, Hong Kong 2025.
Photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices
The casting workshop was on the 19th July at FABRIC, Space 2, 2 Dakeyne Street, Nottingham, NG3 2AR. Sign-ups are no longer being accepted.
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
Nottingham Casting Information
The fun and welcoming casting workshop was on the 20th July. Sign-ups are no longer being accepted.
To make sure all children have the best possible experience, we ask that they live within a 45-minute journey of The Place. This is because of the timing and commitment required for rehearsals and performances.
The final performances are at the Place on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th September.
Each child in the final cast will receive a small honorarium for their participation.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
All cast members must have permission from their head teacher to miss school on both Thursday, 11th September for the dress rehearsal , and Friday, 12th September in order to participate.
You must have confirmed permissions before signing up to the casting workshop.
We require all participants to attend ALL of the rehearsal and performance dates. See dates and times below:
Key dates:
Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd August :10-5pm
Tuesday 26th to Friday 29th August: 10-5pm
Saturday 6th September: 10-5pm
Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th September: 4 to 7pm
Thursday 11th September : Dress rehearsal all day times tbc
Friday 12th September : Performance 1 at the Place. Show time tbc but looking at 4 to 9pm
Saturday 13th September : Performance 2 at the Place.
London 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 10-12 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.