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various ballet technique drills. At the end of the video, the couple embrace, no doubt exhausted from having performed these rewarding yet demanding parenting roles. The couple dedicate their performance to “everyone raising children during these unprecedented times”. Their Artist Note is worth quot- ing in full: It’s special and beautiful to be together as a family, exhausting without a minute to spare, and a struggle to find enough time to maintain our iden- tities as artists. Capturing every moment during a single day gave us the opportunity to zoom out and see what we are really working on right now: the art of raising two humans into this world. What Laracey and Schumacher have performed is that which enables every performance to be what it is: the behind-the-scenes goings-on that allow the performer to study, to rehearse, to grow, to improve, to take center stage. The performed world that supports the performance – that supports the per- formance that acknowledges its performed-ness – is absolutely vital for the latter. Without a world to support it, the art cannot be created. Without a world to support her, the artist cannot create. Some of this support will come in terms of funding and budgets, and some will come from reliable childcare and the not-having-to-worry that next month’s rent will be paid. All of these things belong to the scaffolding that holds up the stages on which artists per- form their crafts. Audiences typically do not see them, however. Laracey and Schumacher’s piece brings this scaffolding to the fore, and reminds audiences that erecting and maintaining these structures is as much a part of an artist’s work as any other performed aspect of it. Another real-life married couple whose work offers a glimpse into their home life is tap dancers and body percussionists Nicholas Van Young and Carson Murphy.9 In “Hook, The Moon”, Young and Murphy create intricate rhythms to a simple track composed by Young, which are then layered over other rhythms, visually and audibly. The couple have an impressive command of their bodies. Even as they create drum beats with their hands and feet, their bodies move with precision, fluidity, and grace. Several times during the piece, their child Immy appears in the frame and dances around with the joy- ful abandon of a toddler. Young and Carson receive credits for choreography 9 Carson Murphy and Nicholas Van Young, “Hook, The Moon”, 6 September 2020, https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yrs1WqELB0 [accessed 5 January 2021]. Dance Video Review: Works & Process Artists (WPA) | 209www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 205–210