A Pulitzer Prize-win­ning dance crit­ic teach­es us to appre­ci­ate — and enact — grace in every dimen­sion: phys­i­cal, spir­i­tu­al, and emo­tion­al. We are nat­u­ral­ly drawn to smooth, har­mo­nious move­ment. Both social and phys­i­cal graces have been taught since the dawn of civ­i­liza­tion: the Torah tells us that Noah found grace in the eyes of God. Yet grace seems for­got­ten in our pushy, hec­tic mod­ern world. Sarah L. Kauf­man argues that we bring it back. She cel­e­brates grace in the way bod­ies move, explor­ing how to stand and walk well. She explores the con­cept of grace in faiths around the world, includ­ing Judaism, where grace is seen as a qual­i­ty that engen­ders love. She sin­gles out grace in sports, in the arts, and in the every­day ways peo­ple inter­act, from the grace of a good host to the unex­pect­ed kind­ness of strangers. Cary Grant is her muse. His uncan­ny ease flowed from train­ing as an acro­bat but equal­ly from his wit, humil­i­ty, and com­pas­sion. So too, Kauf­man sug­gests, we might unearth the poten­tial for grace in ourselves.