It is a ritual of peace for peace, conceived and choreographed in 2011 by Jacqueline Buglisi, Artistic Director of the Buglisi Dance Theatre, held annually at the walls of the Lincoln Center in New York.

(Video broadcast can be viewed here.)

White suits are an association with the purity and holiness of souls, which are remembered on this day of remembrance for the victims of 9/11. The 26-minute performance ends at 8.46 with a minute of silence, which is symbolic – it was at this time that the first plane crashed into the tower 21 years ago …