Yes, the ubiquitous year-end list is here. Some top highlights and transitions, many covered in this blog, and by no means comprehensive.

There seems to have been more movement than usual among top dancers in many of the city's dance companies. One of the lucky recipients of this instability, as seen in two programs at the Baryshnikov Arts Center from November 9-20, is the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.

Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale, from 1918), a two-performance, one-evening event at Galapagos in Dumbo last week, was one of those only-in-New-York performances that restores one's faith in humanity, even on a wicked sleety night.