Light Ballet was visible from up to seven kilometres and covering almost two hundred kilometres. The journey began each night from dusk (approx 11 pm) starting off in Co Roscommon on June 13 and traveled through Leitrim, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Tipperary, Clare, ending its journey in Co Galway.
The installation was accompanied by a newly composed soundscape by David Kitt. Drawing inspiration from William Butler Yeats’s own Song of Wandering Aengus, the soundscape for Light Ballet was created by David Kitt, with words from Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe’s poem Wandersong in collaboration with Mick Murray and Matthew Cregan.
Using a familiar Irish musical time signature, intermixed with words from Poet Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and his own vocal, David Kitt brought us on a journey through, river, ‘spirit land’ and the surrounds. Once entwined, these lands, the people, the river and their connection in music, words and song delivered us to a new place, a spiritual journey along the river through its edgelands, to a familiar place.
The light installation and soundscape were synchronised in real-time allowing audiences to experience the soundscape at home, along the edgelands or those in-between places through their phones, tablets or computers. The artwork was on a seven-minute cycle for four hours each night from dusk and the full show was visible from any point along the route.