Subterranean Dance is a 7 minute chamber piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, marimba and vibraphone. Beneath its high energy, rapid pulses, and arabesques lies a quiet contrapuntal nocturne, first lyrical, then mysterious (i.e. 'subterranean'). The vigorous music reestablishes itself and seeks momentum, only to exhaust itself into a sad, eerie slow dance and eventually a skeletal violin solo. The lyrical nocturne returns to conclude the piece, with remnants of the faster music adorning it in a hazy halo of high ornaments that waft the music up into a higher realm.