As You Take Time is an Australian-Japanese collaboration created by choreographer & film-maker Sue Healey and her team of performers and media artists. Inspired by working in Japan, the work is drawn from the surreal shift in perception of time when one is immersed in a new culture.

How do the Japanese think about time? Do we have a peculiarly Australian way of dealing with time? In this speed-obsessed age of ours, what do we do to cope with the ever-increasing pace? The central concern is an articulation of time through sensitivity to rhythms and rituals that mark our experience of its passage. Noted for her richly textured and sensuous work, Sue Healey brings complex rhythms of movement and film into compelling spatial arrangements. Audiences experience this work in an intimate and immersive environment, providing multiple perspectives on the nuances of time, through both cultural lenses.

First performed at Gallery 4a –Asia Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, August 2007. Toured to International Festival of Art and Media, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama Japan 2009 and excerpts (White Room) to Dancehouse, Melbourne 2009.

This work is adaptable to gallery spaces, theatres and foyers. As You Take Time is both video installation (with no performers) and an installation performance with set performance times (5 performers).