This chapter will focus on developments in Europe with regard to dance and poetry, particularly on those works that take poems as their inspiration for dance choreography; and to a lesser extent, poems that take their position in relation to dance forms. The chapter starts with a consideration of Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Dance the Orange’ and looks for structural and rhythmic associations as well as metaphorical ones. It considers works in translation, including the complex relationship between various versions of poems in a range of languages on the one hand; and the seemingly ‘universal’ language of dance on the other. The chapter includes sections on German dance and poetry, the choreography of Pina Bausch, flamenco, gesture, Yeats and a tracking of the connections between dance and poetry from late Romanticism through Imagism and Vorticism to Modernism—all discussed through poetic examples. Following an initial discussion earlier in the book, Mallarmé’s Divagations and its significance for Symbolism, its association between dance and poetry and its relevance to today’s thinking about the two art forms is a particular focus. The chapter also includes a consideration of the choreographic possibilities of the prose poem.