These Are the Performances Our Readers Loved the Most This Year
We asked you for nominations, compiled your suggestions and had you vote on your favorites. Here’s what you chose:
Best Viral Video
Winner:
“Kids Meet a Ballerina,” featuring Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Elle Macy
Other Nominees:
• Syncopated Ladies’ “Everybody Mad” Beychella cover
• Ballet Nacional de España’s performance at Oteyza fashion show
• “Doomed,” featuring RubberLegz and James Gregg
Most Moving Performance
DESCENT. Photo by Jay Newman, courtesy Kinetic Light
Winner:
Alice Sheppard/Kinetic Light in DESCENT
Other Nominees:
• Dance Theatre of Harlem and artists from Collage Dance Collective in
Geoffrey Holder’s Dougla
• National Ballet of Canada in John Neumeier’s Nijinsky
• The Royal Ballet in Liam Scarlett’s Swan Lake
Coolest Collaboration
Winner:
TU Dance and Bon Iver’s Come Through
Other Nominees:
• Menil Collection, Houston Ballet and the Merce Cunningham Trust’s Merce Cunningham Dance and Concert, Arrivals and Departures: Cage, Cunningham, and Johns
• Sonya Tayeh and The Bengsons’ you’ll still call me by name
• The Joffrey Ballet and Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Orphée et Eurydice
Best Dance Documentary
Winner:
Ballet Now, directed by Steven Cantor
Other Nominees:
• Gravity Hero, directed by Trey McIntyre
• Bobbi Jene, directed by Elvira Lind
Most Inventive New Work
Winner:
Odeon, by Ephrat Asherie Dance
Other Nominees:
• GAY GUERRILLA/for julius, by MADBOOTS DANCE
• Paramodernities, by Netta Yerushalmy
• Silent Scream, by Olivier Wevers; performed by Whim W’Him
• Keone and Mari Madrid’s e-book, Ruth
