Refuse the hour

Music theatre performance Refuse the hour by William Kentridge, world premiere at Holland Festival 2012.
After Telegrams from the Nose (Holland Festival 2010), South African artist William Kentridge returns with the world première of his latest chamber opera Refuse the
hour. Kentridge is well known for his 2D keyframing animations, in which he makes the animations within one single key frame. His use of layers and his resistance to the linearity of time in his animations can also be found in his operas. In Refuse the hour, Kentridge combines dance and live music with some strange machines and projections
of his own animations, which are mixed with live projections of the performance itself, creating a world in which time does not adhere to the laws of nature, but rather to the laws of Kentridge.