InfiniteBody Honor Roll 2010

And now, as we close out this year, here's a fond, informal tip o' the hat to arts events I most enjoyed in 2010:

@ Urban Bush Women -- Zollar: Uncensored -- at Dance Theater Workshop

@ Katherine Longstreth -- solos and duets -- Soaking WET series at West End Theater; dancers Kelly Bartnik and Diane Vivona

@ David Zambrano -- Soul Project -- Danspace Project; dancers Edivaldo Ernesto, Nina Fajdiga, Milan Herich, Peter Jasko, Horacio Macuacua and David Zambrano; costume designer Mat Voorter in collaboration with Pepa Martinez (Taller Trece) and Platform 2010 curator Ralph Lemon

@ Gotham Chamber Opera -- Il mondo della luna -- at Hayden Planetarium; special mention: director Diane Paulus, costume designer Anka Lupes, video and production designer Philip Bussmann, artistic director/conductor Neal Goren. And the cast, in particular, Nicholas Coppollo (Ecclitico) and Marco Nisticò (Buonafede)

@ Rocio Molina in NY Flamenco Festsival at NY City Center

@ Tino Sehgal at Guggenheim Museum

@ Giulia Murredu in Bava at Dance New Amsterdam; puppet design by Ulrike Quade

@ Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion--The Radio Show at Danspace Project; choreography by Abraham in collaboration with Abraham.In.Motion; outstanding company, including Kyle Abraham, Maureen Damaso, Samantha Farrow, Raja Feather Kelly, Jeremy Nedd, Amber Lee Parker and Rachelle Rafailedes; music arrangement by Kyle Abraham; costume design by Sarah Cubbage; lighting design by Dan Scully

@ The New Group's production of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind at The Acorn Theater; actors: Keith Carradine, Laurie Metcalf, Alessandro Nivola, Marin Ireland, Maggie Siff, Josh Hamilton, Frank Whaley, Karen Young; Ethan Hawke (directing); Derek McLane (sets); Jeff Croiter (lights); Gaines (music)

@ William Kentridge -- The Nose -- Metropolitan Opera; Paulo Szot as Kovalyov

@ Faye Driscoll--There is so much mad in me--Dance Theater Workshop; Driscoll, dancers and entire production team

@ Sankai Juku -- Kara*Mi -- Theatre de la Ville, Paris; entire production

@ SITI Co.--bobrauschenbergamerica--Dance Theater Workshop; entire production

@ Witness Relocation--Five Days in March--La MaMa E.T.C.; entire production

@ Emeline Michel, Buyu Ambroise and Pauline Jean at Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center

@ Nora Chipaumire and Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited--lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi--at Kumble Theater, LIU; entire production, including co-dancer Souleymane Badolo, video designer Romain Tardy and lighting designers Olivier Clausse dit Maurice and Joe W. Novak, costume designer Naoko Nagata

@James Thiérrée/Compagnie du Hanneton--Raoul--BAM Harvey (Next Wave Festival); costume, animal design and fabrication by Victoria Thiérrée

@The Joyce Theater for programming: Camille A. Brown, Andrea Miller, Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes

@Camille A. Brown -- choreography and performance at The Joyce Theater; company of Camille A. Brown

@Andrea Miller -- choreography, Wonderland; company: Gallim Dance at The Joyce Theater

@Kate Weare -- choreography; dancing: Adrian Clark; Douglas Gillespie, Leslie Kraus, Marlena Penney Oden; Live music performance: The Crooked Jades, in particular, vocalists/musicians Jeff Kazor and Lisa Berman; at The Joyce Theater

@Monica Bill Barnes -- choreography and performance; company performance: Anna Bass, Charlotte Bydwell and Celia Rowlson-Hall; at The Joyce Theater

@Sarah A.O. Rosner and her ensemble, The A.O. Movement Collective at Joyce SoHo--90 ways to Wake from drowning

@The Chocolate Factory for Brian Rogers and Madeline Best--Selective Memory

@Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder in smithsoniansmith at Dixon Place

@Andrew Dinwiddie's Get Mad at Sin! at The Chocolate Factory

@Elizabeth Ashley and Brian Murray in Edward Albee's Me,Myself & I at Playwrights Horizons

@Larissa Velez-Jackson, Larissa Velez Performance Company at Danspace Project in Holy Now! and Making Ends Meet (September 23-25)

@The Tempest -- Julie Taymor; Helen Mirren as Prospera

@The Social Network -- David Fincher; Alan Sorkin; cinematographer(s); acting ensemble

@Pina Bausch's Vollmond (2006), Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, BAM 2010 Next Wave Festival

@Patricia Hoffbauer and team -- Para-dice (Stage 1) at Danspace Project, Platform 2010: certain difficulties, certain joy. Special mention: Peggy Gould (dance), George Emilio Sanchez (text)

@Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper and Ishmael Houston-Jones -- revival of THEM (1986) at PS 122

@Leilah Boukhrim's work-in-progress showing at 92nd Street Y--Traces--and performance of Bahram Ji (vocals, santur)

@Denis O'Hare and Brendan Fraser in Elling

@Phantom Limb's The Fortune Teller (2006) at HERE Arts Center--entire production team

@Jack Ferver's Rumble Ghost at Performance Space 122

@Risa Jaroslow--The Partner Project/Scene in Public--at Danspace Project; core dancers: Luke Gutgsell, Elise Knudson, Rachel Lehrer and Paul Singh

@Jenifer Ringer of New York City Ballet, who danced her dance and spoke her truth (you go, girl!)

@Patti Smith for Just Kids and for just being Patti, still and always

@Aszure Barton's Busk at Baryshnikov Arts Center's Jerome Robbins Theater--choreography and dancers, especially Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry, Eric Beauchesne and Stephen Laks. Lev Zhurbin for music. Nicole Pearce for lighting

@John Kelly's Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte at La MaMa, entire production

@Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward, curators, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

@Noche Flamenca at the Cherry Lane Theater; Martín Santangelo and company (choreography); Soledad Barrio, Juan Ogalla and Antonio Jiménez (dance); Salva de María and Eugenio Iglesias (music); Manuel Gago, Emilio Florido and Miguel Rosendo (singing); S. Benjamin Farrar and Christopher Thielking (lighting)

@Wakka Wakka's Baby Universe (A Puppet Odyssey) at Baruch Performing Arts Center; Kirjan Waage (puppets); writing and direction (Waage and Gwendolyn Warnock)