When Still is set to three separate pieces of choral music. The first two sections are choreographed to two madrigals from Monteverdi's Madrigals of Love and War. The final section is to the Beata, arranged and sung by Chanticleer, the Grammy award winning San Francisco men's chorus. The title, When Still, is taken from the first line of the poem by Petrarch "When Heaven and Earth and Wind are Still". The depth of feeling in these choral pieces—their undistilled power—has effected the movement I have created, making it fluid and emotive. The tone of both the music and the dance evolves from yearning and reaching outward in the first section, sorrowful and introspective in the second section—the three women are dancing in solitude—to haunting and resonant in the third section—the group moves with a powerful calm and balance of internal and external focus. The music and the dance echo the strong surge of commitment that accompanies profound spiritual understanding. I choreographed this piece following The Line Between Night and Day; I needed to resolve the volatility and discord of that dance with a dance that moves progressively inward to attain serenity. To strengthen the focus and energy of the dance on one particular group of dancers, each section contains no exits or entrances for the dancers.