The Wallach Art Gallery presents Hot Hands, a performance conceived and choreographed by the artist Madeline Hollander in conjunction with the exhibition Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood. Hot Hands features six dancers and draws choreographic inspiration from the reflex-driven hand game of its title, as well as other archetypal clapping games found across the globe. The collaborative piece taps into the dancers’ muscle memories and childhoods, and playfully explores the corporeal vocabularies articulating fake-outs, flinches, anticipation, concentration, keeping score, and breaking rules. The installation presents 6 locally sourced inverted tables that have been converted into “roundabouts,” a revolving piece of playground equipment. These spinning structures inform the dancers’ trajectories, with arrows indicating their next move as they cycle through the game ad infinitum.

Free to the public. Viewers are invited to come and go as they please throughout the performance.