These Are the Performances Our Readers Loved the Most This Year

November 30, 2018

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