“On Friday morning, … dancers—28 of them, in costumes of draping white fabric—processed onto [Lincoln Center] plaza as the violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain played a distortion of the national anthem on his electric instrument,” writes Joshua Barone in Friday’s (9/11) New York Times. “This was the premiere of ‘Prologue,’ an adaptation of Buglisi Dance Theater’s ‘Table of Silence’ … presented at Lincoln Center every Sept. 11 morning since the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks [as] a solemn, ritualistic call for peace through choreography…. Friday’s event … was … available only as a livestream online [due to the pandemic]…. Mr. Roumain … composed the score and performed it live; and Marc Bamuthi Joseph … wrote the lyrical poem ‘Awakening’ for the work and read it for a recording played over speakers on the plaza. Terese Capucilli, the Martha Graham dancer and teacher, reprised her role as … the ritual’s leader…. ‘Prologue’ [was followed by] a moment of quiet at 8:46 a.m., the time when an American Airlines plane was flown into the World Trade Center … At the premiere’s close, Ms. Capucilli … exited slowly…. ‘It’s a beautiful energy that radiates from the plaza no matter what year it is,’ she said.”
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