STAGE TUBE: Full Performance of Buglisi's TABLE OF SILENCE in Lincoln Center's Plaza
By: Michael Dale Sep. 11, 2015
This morning at 8:15am, for the fifth straight September 11th, over 150 dancers from choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi's Buglisi Dance Theatre gave a free performance of TABLE OF SILENCE, a site-specific ritual for peace in Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza.
The moving performance was livestreamed at buglisidance.org
Dancers gather in silence procession, forming patterns of concentric circles to create a peace labyrinth while encircling the Revson Fountain as a symbol of eternity, compassion and continuity of the life cycle. At 8:46am, the dancers turn their wrists with open palms and extend their arms to the sky for one minute, evoking the simple gesture of universal peace. Both performers and audiences experience the transformative power of community through art.
Honored with the American Dance Guild Award for Artistic Excellence, Buglisi Dance Theatre is distinguished for poignant, theatrical repertoire and imaginative multi-disciplinary collaborations which fuse classical sensibility with intuitive creativity. The company was founded by Artistic Director Buglisi, Capucilli, Dakin and Foreman, who performed together as Principal Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company. BDT presents its home seasons at The Joyce Theater, NYC's preeminent venue for contemporary dance, where the company celebrated its 20th anniversary season in 2013. World-class production values and theatrical appeal have won BDT invitations worldwide to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; the Sosnoff Theater at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College; The Kravis Center, West Palm Beach; SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center; Westhampton Performing Arts Center; Evening Stars Festival; Vail International Festival; Society of Performing Arts, Houston; Baryshnikov Arts Center; The Juilliard Theatre; Lincoln Center; Dance St. Louis's Spring to Dance Festival; the Yale Center for British Art; and abroad to festivals in Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Israel and Italy, reaching over 25,000 people annually in live performance BDT expands its service to the community with site-specific performances at such venues as The Whitney Museum; the steps of Federal Hall and New York Stock Exchange for the LMCC/River to River Festival; Battery Park for The Downtown Dance Festival, NYC; Utica College football field for the Special Olympics Opening Ceremony; and Dancing at the Crossroads in Times Square. The company's repertoire of over 100 original works is seen on such companies as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Richmond Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and Ice Theatre of New York, to name a few.
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