This is not so much a performance as a communal happening, to celebrate the Secrets of the Mona Lisa exhibition in Te Manawa Museum gallery, ending this weekend.

There’s a group of about a dozen practiced dancers, and Tania Kopytko organises assembled mums, dads and kids to join them in a simple dance routine, well-explained, before everybody heads upstairs to the gallery foyer, where there’s a small replica of the famous painting on a stand, as a focal point.

A woman representing Leonardo Da Vinci inspects it, and finds it dusty, whereupon the dozen dancers do a routine as cleaners, waving and twirling brightly coloured dusters, before the mums, dads and kids are brought in to another simple routine, in a circle.

Finally, a human chain is formed to pass the painting out of the upstairs foyer, down the stairs and finally outside to an elegant, open-topped yellow Alfa Romeo, to be ceremonially driven away.

Everyone is happy.

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