Clepsydra-Gezeiten (Water-Clock and Tides) is a series of contemporary ballet suites by Amber Willett, created in response to Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novella, The Waves. The pieces are not depictions of the story of Woolf’s book, but artistic responses to the tonal charge and imagistic force that the work prompts. One of the main purposes of this project is to explore how artworks feed into and respond to one another: how something new responds to something old, thus creating something timeless.

Clepsydra-Gezeiten explores how artistic communities feed into one another, each artist bringing something in as something else goes out.  It also suggests a way of measuring time with the tides, pointing to the fluidity not only of the natural world and its rhythms, but also to the unique rhythms of a human life.