‘A Book of Hours’ is a revelatory screen-dance presentation featuring stop-motion film, on stage and filmed choreography with live classical contemporary soundtrack performed by Rubiks Collective, alongside stop-motion video works by visual artist Sal Cooper and choreographer Gerard Van Dyck.

Inspired by the mysteries of time and different ideas of how we spend our days, ‘A Book of Hours’ combines stop-motion filmed humans and animation on screen, choreographed musicians and wind-up toys on stage representing the embodied vulnerability of the human form.

Taking the medieval Book of Hours as the central concept of the work, composer Kate Neal references early Baroque influences (Couperin, Rameau) to reimagine the early canonical divisions of time.