On Friday morning, as the call of conch shells summoned dancers to the fountain of Lincoln Center’s plaza, the sun’s softly circular glow broke through clouds that lingered from a passing storm. This was the premiere of “Prologue,” an adaptation of Buglisi Dance Theater’s “Table of Silence,” which has been presented at Lincoln Center every Sept. 11 morning since the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. It was a more subdued edition of “Table of Silence,” a solemn, ritualistic call for peace through choreography. In earlier years, the plaza was flooded by more than 150 dancers and filled by audience members standing in the round or perched from the promenades of Lincoln Center’s theaters. Columbus Avenue and Broadway, typically howling with honking cars at rush hour, instead exhaled in a steady flow of traffic.

Source: New York Times September 11, 2020 16:40 UTC