Twelve months and 87 shows later, we thought we'd add our voice to the roundups of this year in dance.

The highlights for us have been:

Ballet Black: performing at Royal Opera House and Bernie Grant Arts Centre
Rambert Dance Company: performing Siobhan Davies’s ‘Art Of Touch’
Richard Alston Dance Company: Andres de Blust-Mommaerts in Martin Lawrance’s ‘Lie of the Land’
Nederlands Dans Theater 2: ‘Subject To Change’ by Paul Lightfoot and Sol Léon
The Trocks: Programme 1, especially 'Patterns In Space'
Birmingham Royal Ballet: ‘Pointes Of View’
Pina Bausch: ‘Iphigenie Auf Tauris’

In addition, we would like to give a special mention to our Cloud Dance Festival highlights of 2010:

'Trouble & Desire': Goddard | Nixon Project, Mavin Khoo, Morgann Runacre-Temple, Sol Dans, Taciturn and Slanjayvah Danza.
'Hush': Anima Dance Company, Taciturn (performing a triple-bill over three nights), Joss Arnott, James Wilton, Jarkko Lehmus, Pair Dance, Slanjayvah Danza.