Performance | Slow Dance

Cally Spooner, Warm Up

  • December 20, 2026 | 1 pm–4 pm

Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel Galleries

Select days, Nov 3–Dec 20

A person in a white t-shirt and dark pants stands facing a white corner, with one arm raised to their head in a neck stretch position and the other extended to the wall. Faint horizontal smudges are visible on the white walls at shoulder height.

Cally Spooner, Warm Up, 2016. Installation view, Speak, Serpentine, London, 2017.

Photo: Mike Din

In Warm Up, a dancer stretches and prepares for a performance that never takes place. Suspended in a state of continuous rehearsal, the work captures the incessant need to always be ready.

Performed by: Rex Delafkaran and Tina Wang

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