The opening fixes the piece’s main terms immediately: hard attack, fast carried pulse, and abrupt phrase drops that make the dance feel cut into blocks rather than sung forward. Early flashes and weight shifts decorate the surface, but the form’s job is to prove the motor.

The music opens into a longer sustained span, using lighter scurrying figures, woodwind-and-string exchanges, and heavier orchestral answers as rotations of the same dance frame. The section matters less as departure than as repetition under pressure: the pulse keeps reasserting itself after local drops.

A thinner, more stealthy passage reduces the mass without abandoning the forward drive. The dance is held in reserve, then gathered again through phrase lifts and pressure builds, preparing the later return rather than resolving the accumulated motion.

The stable runway returns and carries the piece through its last large stretch of intact pattern. Weight comes back in waves around 3:29, then the music presses toward 4:08 with repeated drops and lifts that keep the ending deferred.

Short silences interrupt the motion in quick succession. They read as breaks inside the same formal world, not a new section yet: the dance keeps trying to continue through the gaps.

A brief re-entry at 4:13 gathers pressure, but by about 4:19 the bodily hold loosens. The ending proceeds through scattered pattern breaks and withdrawals, with the final decay after 4:36 closing the piece by exhaustion rather than a broad resolving cadence.