Dance. It is about the space between us, and it is about our yearning to reach across that space. It is about longing-and belonging. It is about bodies in motion and the beauty they can create, but it’s also about our reach, and what we do with it. Dance can represent the human touch of history; how we react as human beings. How we react when history shifts violently underneath us; what we say, and how we respond-to refugees, for instance, or equally to threats of further violence-tests our empathy as well as our imagination, and some days tests, too, our strength. Many of the dancers in Reunited in Dance have had the recent experience of becoming, in essence, refugees. They have left homes, families, and careers in mid-flow, often packing only a few bags and shutting doors—actual and metaphorical-behind them. Many of the dancers you will see have not danced together since, until here and now. As Americans, Ukrainians, Russians, and from almost every other point of the globe-the  dancers’ stories, many of them in the profiles in this program, are dramatic and searing. But  in many cases, they are also inspiring. These dancers have had months of uncertainty, dislocation, displacement and anxiety, when their shared desire is, in essence, very simple:  to do together what they have been trained to do: to dance, and to dance in a tradition and at a standard unparalleled across the world, and to find an audience who will let them do so.