Across the arts, these 10 performers took a leap of faith this year and stuck the landing in a big way.

The antidote to our increasingly disembodied lives may lie in letting go of our inhibitions and dancing like kids do.

The Chinese dancer, choreographer and filmmaker “didn’t think in those terms” when she was young. Now, she said, “I’m more relaxed, more clear on what I want to do.”

In “What Is War,” two singular artists, Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, grapple with memories of China and Japan in World War II.