Set to excerpts from Debussy's “String Quartet in G Minor (Op. 10),” Todd Bolender's choreographic short story tells of a lonely young girl who at last finds love. Prior to its addition to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s repertory, the ballet had been performed on pointe.
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is...
– T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton"