Actually, Both Sides Now offered a selection of songs articulated on a full cycle process -or in other words, a story based upon some apparently unrelated creations all linked by a conceptual theme thread, which staged a progression : the album depicted the lifespan of a love, from birth to death, to finish with an eventual renewal through a young new love’s sprout. Love Has Many Faces shows a similar approach, listing and describing this time the many types of love which could be englobed within one cycle, each of the songs there becoming related in Mitchell’s script and supporting her storyline. The artist’s own description of her creative process appears on her site’s Love Has Many Faces page.

Regarding the art of Dance, it will nevertheless be necessary to wait until 2019 for a new celebration between Joni Mitchell and Choreography. In April and May 2019, The Fiddle and the Drum in its original form is performed again at the Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary, and then at that of Edmonton, as a tribute to Joni Mitchell's 75th birthday.
In terms of Joni Mitchell's stage performances, the last one at that period dates from June 18, 2013 at the Toronto’s Massey Hall. On her 70th birthday the Canadian musician performs This Rain, This Rain, a poem based on painter Emily Carr’s writings, to whom the musician pays tribute. She interprets as well Furry Sings the Blues and Woodstock.

In retrospect, Joni Mitchell's very last studio album is therefore Shine in 2007 (which thus came full circle with Song to a Seagull released in 1968). At the time, one hoped (as it was expressed in this text's 2011 version, available on Joni Mitchell's website), that this loop would remain open, pending other studio albums.

By then, Starbucks Coffee and its Hear Music division were to publish Shine's heirs -or at least that was what the press did echo by then.
Alas, concerning studio recordings, we know now that this loop closed for good after the Shine album, the absence of a potential successor to it via Hear Music having combined with the multiple health problems that the musician encountered before and after the release of Shine : a prolonged and painful immobilization due to the Morgellons disease, accompanied by a gradual degradation of her vocal abilities, made Joni Mitchell declare in 2013 that she gave up her singing, probably permanently > See Joni Mitchell's CBS interview in 2013 with interviewer Jian Ghomeshi > timing : at 1.40'.13 ”).

What followed is history. That is, the serious rupture of aneurysm that struck Joni Mitchell in 2015 and left her weakened. It is not difficult to understand that except for a miracle -but we all keep on believing in miracles, don't we?-, Joni Mitchell might no be able to offer new compositions in the future.
No matter what, obviously what only counts is that Joni Mitchell is alive, that she has been able to overcome this terrible neurovascular accident, and continues to slowly recover.
At the dawn of this third decade of the XXIst century, she seems to be doing better and better. Even well nowadays, when one considers the few photo-reports published on her public appearances -or the interviews that she accepted to grant, back to 2020 and since.

And among the latest good surprises that destiny had in store for us, her extraordinary appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in July 2022, where she sings and played guitar.

Yes, miracles do happen.