Nijinsky was a Russian dancer famous for his performances as a faun, the spirit of a rose, a puppet, and a blue god—a range of characters of either no fixed gender or chimeras, both human and nonhuman. Bells for hooves remakes the faun costume from Nijinsky’s famous ballet Afternoon of a Faun and involves the repetition of the seemingly simple gesture of rising from all fours to demi-pointe while banging two cow bells together. As the performance progresses, the gaps between rising and falling get shorter, the clang of the bells as they hit the floor becomes louder and more violent, and the performer's body begins to shake from the exertion. Like the performing body of Nijinsky transforming into animal, puppet, god, the artist's body transforms into a visually vibrating body, like the bells she hold. Of no set duration, the performance time changes with the artist's energy and fitness levels, the temperature, the effects of jetlag, and her desire, depending on her mood, to overcome or give in to the first request of her body to stop.