A moment arrives at the conclusion of the documentary
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan when the New York City Ballet principle dancer, then 47,
performs her last plie on the Lincoln Center stage. Between two exquisite male dancers, Whelan's slender, muscular body is pliant, fluid, driven by a spirit that channels the music and its emotion and transmits that to the audience. Her art is so great that we only see the beauty, not the effort – her backstage struggle with the limits of the human body as she approached fifty.