In IMPRESSIONS: A.I.M, Kyle Abraham, JLin, and Giles Deacon in an Untitled Commission, Presented by National Sawdust for FERUS Festival 2021, "The frenetic video editing eats the dance phrases and spits them back out, reframed and refashioned. That’s not the bad thing it could be since the piece exists for the virtual sphere of short attention spans, which is far from the dark, focused space of live theater." — Erin Bomboy

In EMBODIED LIFE: Willow Sanchez on Transitioning from Ballet Dancer to Municipal Lawyer and How Negotiation Is Needed in Both, "Her objective was to work in public policy, so she opted to become a lawyer. 'I felt that being a black woman with a Spanish surname meant I needed to have the degree that the folks who made public policies would respect,' she says. First, though, she had to finish her bachelor's degree, which proved to be more daunting than she expected." — Erin Bomboy

"A video projected on the studio’s back wall shows Nakotah performing in the 2019 "Brooklyn Nutcracker". As his ghost-like presence fills the empty studio, it seems a haunting reminder of the others we lost this year." — Theo Boguszewski, Brooklyn

In MOVING PEOPLE: Vangeline on the Impact Of Watching "Flashdance," Penning Her First Book, And She Is Carrying Butoh into the 21st Century, "If it does not work the first time, try again!" — Vangeline on her personal motto

In IMPRESSIONS: Heidi Latsky Dance's "On Display Global" in Honor of the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities, "Dressed in white, groups sit in lawn chairs or stand barefoot on the grass. Soloists lounge in their homes on beds or in front of bookcases, their bodies arranged in pedestrian poses. Little movement occurs, and when some does, it is executed like a moving meditation, often barely perceptible to the viewer." — Cecly Placenti

“Baryshnikov’s Nutcracker” for American Ballet Theatre with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland Is Available for Streaming from Amazon's Prime Video

In MOVING PEOPLE: Camille A. Brown on the Advice She'd Give Young and Black Choreographers, Her Pre-performance Ritual with Her Casts, and Her Favorite Activity Outside of Dance, "Music is to dance like air is to earth. This also honors the music in silence too." — Camille A. Brown

In IMPRESSIONS: New York Theatre Ballet’s "The Nutcracker" and The Bang Group's "Nut/Cracked" Presented by Arts on Site, "New York Theatre Ballet opens the evening with the Party Scene from choreographer Keith Michael’s version of the ballet. Then, in place of the usual divertissement, The Bang Group performs excerpts from David Parker’s Nut/Cracked, a loopy sendup of the original. This inspired pairing could not be more delightful, and, quite unexpectedly, what promised to be a gloomy holiday turns joyous." — Robert Johnson, New York

In "The Nutcracker" by Troy Schumacher's BalletCollective at Wethersfield, "Following an illuminated garden path, we now enter a large tent, with a stage in the center where characters from the second-act divertissement are circulating. The scene dazzles. Each pod of visitors has its own table, laden with plastic pâtisserie, brightly dyed cakes and tarts." — Robert Johnson, Amenia, New York

The Bessies Celebrated Artists and Arts Workers at the 36th Annual New York Dance and Performance Awards in a Virtual Ceremony