KALEIDOSCOPE DANCES.

The article focuses on Morris dancing. It is an organic shoot in rural England, plucked out in the industrial revolution. The dance is performed by the women, they dance an improvised future, taking liberties with what is not personal and what is vital as the pounding of feet on pavement or the hearts in chests. Time was the movements of the stars and the growing of the fields turned the dance. Time was the planet and bodies were dances before an electric future. Nostalgia is not dancing a future where the feet touches a planet which is not stripped of its spirit for the wealth. Six poems are also presented in the article on which the dances are performed. The meaning of each poem and how the dancers dance attune to the poem is described. A poem can spin dances golden as delicate filigree or as sparse as the oak in winter, adorning language with beauty and pattern, careful, precise and neat. There can be meditation in the repeated lines of a villanelle, or in a sestina's echoing words. The rhyme might return, as in a ballade, telling stories, like dances tracing familiar patterns, only the words being changed.