A Book of Hours is a meditation on the mystery of time, a multimedia performance combining projected movement and a quirky live musical score. 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…

“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 

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. The project has also been supported by the Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, The University of Melbourne.