[3] The first part of the ballet, set to Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa, features three couples.
[4] The second part is a pas de deux originated by Soto and Wendy Whelan, which Wheeldon said it was a "love letter, this poem to both of them as artists.
[2] The female dancer wears flat shoes instead of pointe shoes, which Whelan was initially "miffed and confused" about as she had never been off pointe in any New York City Ballet performance, and she later recalled thinking Wheeldon was making her "walk like an old lady", but later realized "exactly the opposite of that.
[2][6] In 2014, Whelan danced the pas de deux at her final performance with the New York City Ballet, and partnered Craig Hall.
Source:[1] In a 2013 video, Kowroski and la Cour performed the pas de deux on the roof of 4 World Trade Center, which has over 2 million views on YouTube as of 2016.