Len Lye, A colour box, 1935. Colour, moving image, sound, 4:00 min. Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation. From material preserved and made available by Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision.
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govettbrewster.comPerformance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Len Lye Wand Dance (1965 / 2018)
Performances: twice hourly every day, 6 September – 23 November 2025
When activated by electrical energy, Wand Dance is one of Lye’s most entrancing kinetic installations. Composed of seven dancing 3-metre fibreglass wands topped with orbiting brass bells, the work evolves through choreographed ‘figures of motion’. As forms of energy made visible, these ephemeral volumes of light in space reveal the language of acoustics and physics—as underpinned by harmonic waves.
Price
- Free
Date
- Sat 06 Sep — Sun 23 Nov
Time
- 10:00 am — 5:00 pm
Address
- Govett Brewster Art Gallery
- 42 Queen Street
- Ngāmotu New Plymouth
Performance Programme
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sensing Sound is enlivened by an evolving performance series across the exhibition’s duration spanning choreography, performance, sound installations and kinetic sculpture.
Len Lye Wand Dance (1965 / 2018)
Performances: twice hourly every day, 6 September – 23 November 2025
When activated by electrical energy, Wand Dance is one of Lye’s most entrancing kinetic installations. Composed of seven dancing 3-metre fibreglass wands topped with orbiting brass bells, the work evolves through choreographed ‘figures of motion’. As forms of energy made visible, these ephemeral volumes of light in space reveal the language of acoustics and physics—as underpinned by harmonic waves.
