“Two Step” was performed to an instrumental version of Erik Satie’s music-hall song “La Diva de ‘L’Empire.’” When asked if any of the material came from Mrs. Barrett, his boyhood teacher, Cunningham said that “the middle part was a kind of soft-shoe, only more elaborate, turning around, and I put a break at the end of the phrase that probably came from her – I just made it bigger.” Carolyn Brown described the solo as a “tour de force of mercurial exuberance.”