The chapter focuses principally on Europe at the turn of the twentieth century and its cultural movements: Modernism, Vorticism and Primitivism. It also explores freer forms of individualistic dance that have emerged in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, paralleling this strand with contemporary free-form poetry. There is discussion of the work and influence of Laban in the first half of the twentieth century, not only on dance and movement education but also on two aspects of movement that are central to the current book: rhythm and the correspondence of dance with other art forms. The chapter addresses twentieth century and contemporary free verse poetry, referring back to its genesis in the work of Whitman. Current American practice in the use of the ‘prose poem’ or prose-like poems is prevalent and the correspondences with narrative or punctuated dance forms are explored. The chapter also explores the implications of digitisation in dance and poetry, and in their performance. In particular, the issue of embodiment in conventional forms of art practice is compared to their complementary but different digital representation. Furthermore, concepts of balance and imbalance in dance and poetry are considered as these art forms seem particularly suited to such considerations.