These are a few of my favorites [UPDATED]

What a year! Thank you all--whoever and wherever you are! 

But here's an extra-special, super-duper Thank You to the following--in no particular order:

Jeff Mozgala (Diagnosis of a Faun by Tamar Rogoff, La Mama E.T.C.)

Jared Gradinger (There Is No End To More by Jeremy Wade, Japan Society)

Deirdre O'Connell (The Dream Express by Steve Mellor and Deirdre O'Connell at The Chocolate Factory)

Donna Costello (Sensate by Carrie Ahern at The Brooklyn Lyceum)

Yasmin Levy (Sephardic Soul at Peter Norton Symphony Space)

Anna Deveare Smith (Let Me Down Easy as well as appearances at the World Science Festival and in Hymn by Judith Jamison at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater season at New York City Center)

Low: Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker (Heaven by Morgan Thorson at Performance Space 122)

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Charlie's Angels by Jason Samuels Smith at The Kitchen)

Tanya Tagaq (at Smithsonian Museum's Museum of the American Indian)

Trajal Harrell (Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S) by Harrell at The New Museum)

Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba (The Good Dance: dakar/brooklyn by Wilson and Ouamba at Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Kurt Hentschläger (creator of ZEE at 3LD Art & Technology Center)

Miguel Gutierrez, Michelle Boulé and Tarek Halaby; Lenore Doxsee; Neal Medlyn (Last Meadow by Gutierrez at Dance Theater Workshop)

Thomas F. DeFrantz (Monk's Mood: A Performance Meditation on the Life and Music of Thelonius Monk by DeFrantz at Joyce SoHo)

Rashaun Mitchell (Nearly Ninety by Merce Cunningham at Brooklyn Academy of Music)

John Kelly (Paved Paradise: Redux by Kelly at Abrons Arts Center)

Anahid Sofian (Toward A Secret Sky by Sofian at Anahid Sofian Studio)

The South Bronx (The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue by Melanie Joseph and Claudia Rankine)

Those saintly guys--way too many to mention--but you know who you are (The Golden Legend by Christopher Williams at Dance Theater Workshop)

Germaine Acogny, Carmen De Lavallade, Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller and Jawole Will Jo Zollar (FLY Five First Ladies of Dance at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts)

Allegra Herman (Dover Beach by Sarah Michelson at The Kitchen)

Robert Frank (Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Georgia O'Keeffe (Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction at The Whitney Museum)

Adrian Clark, Douglas Gillespie, Leslie Kraus and Jennifer Nugent (works by Kate Weare at Danspace Project)

Alice Ripley (Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey at The Booth Theatre)

Sahr Ngaujah (Fela! by Bill T. Jones at the Baryshnikov Arts Center)

Jon Michael Hill (Superior Donuts by Tracey Letts at The Music Box)

Cynthia Oliver and the women of her COCo Dance Theatre: A'Keitha Carey, Nehassaiu deGannes, Ithalia Forel, Lisa Green, Caryn Hodge and Rosamond S. King (Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso by Oliver at Danspace Project)

Lionel Popkin and dance and music collaborators: Carolyn Hall, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Peggy Piacenza, Robert Een, Hearn Gadbois and Valecia Phillips

Mo'Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire by Lee Daniels)

Savion Glover (SoLo in TIME by Glover at The Joyce Theater)

Tere O'Connor and company: Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Walter Dundervill, Erin Gerken, Heather Olson and Matthew Rogers (Wrought Iron Fog by O'Connor at Dance Theater Workshop)

SPECIAL UPDATE:

Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper, Anne Gridley, Robert M. Johanson, Elisabeth Conner and their Romeo and Juliet production at The Kitchen officially join my list of favorites! Read my review of last night's performance here!  

All the best in the coming year!