Bedtime story (2021), which Nadav Zelner made amid the COVID-19 pandemic, returns to the NDT stage. "In this work, it was important for me to give my dreams a stage, and to express the dreams I had as a child in something tangible. As we get older, we tend to abandon our dreams. We need to reacquaint ourselves with the child in us," says Zelner. At its premiere, the work received rave reviews: "Zelner's dance language is adrift, lightning fast and total, detailed to the inch," wrote NRC.

Micaela Taylor is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director of her company TL Collective. With a background in hip-hop and ballet, she has created her own dance style, which she calls Expand Practice. In it, emotion is central, and variations in physicality and textures are created as an expression of one's authenticity. Taylor's movement language has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "athletic and graceful, precise and fluid", and one that "settles into dichotomies". This premiere is Taylor's first creation for the company.

What does participation feel, sound and look like? How can our perception of 'progress' encourage collective engagement? Out of a desire to support new creators, NDT invited Jermaine Spivey to create an extended version of Code of Conduct (2022) for the Amare stage, which he originally created for Up & Coming Choreographers 2022. "With Code of Conduct, I was interested in defining physicality through choreographic and improvised structures that place the dancers in different states of being, nothing, something," says Spivey. "The structures require precision, sensitivity and responsiveness. In this way, the work can be seen as an elaboration of this common process."