Deliberately including south and central America as well as the USA and Canada, this chapter turns its attention to folk/country and urban versions of dance. Here there is a further exploration of the range of dance forms generated and developed in north American cities like Chicago and New York as well as the dance forms and poetic range in Latin America through salsa, tango, rumba and bossa nova. Specific examples discussed include the work of post-war American poets; the dance work ‘Alrededor no hay nada’; and the choreography of Mark Morris, with particular reference to Dido and Aeneas and its transformations from the original Virgil poem through a libretto and Purcell’s music to contemporary dance. Through the work of Octavia Paz, a Mexican poet concerned with rhythm, ritual (the fiesta) and social expression, both the theory and practices of dance and poetry are explored. The chapter ends with a discussion of site-specific dance, exploring associations with the poetic use of ‘sites’. Throughout, the energy and inter-disciplinary links between dance and poetry are addressed. The chapter includes a table showing the various affordances of dance, choreography, poetry and poetics and how they are related.