Three-measure dance patterns

As I prepare for the in-depth workshops I will do with women and those few men who are interested, I think about some of the basic teaching bits that I hope to transmit. They are: 1) the three-measure dance is a dance pattern that most clearly has roots in Neolithic times and a matrifocal society that venerated the earth as our mother and the Goddess as the creative force. 2) The most basic dance is the Pravo and this dance multiplies into many variations. So, there are not 10 or 20 different dances, but 10 or 20 variations of the same dance. The names we commonly associate with these dances is Pravo, Cocek, Sta Tria, Issos, Crossing Dance, Zonaradikos and Jeni Jol to name a few. 3) Laura Shannon sees these dances as carrying the wisdom of the ages, a nonverbal message passed down to us from our ancestors. The basic pattern of three measures, two of which progress to the right and one which returns to the left, Laura sees as a tree-of-life pattern. The first measure is the trunk of the tree, the second measures is the brances to one side of the tree and the third measure is the brances to the other side of the tree. 4) In studying the remnants of the Neolithic age which is mostly pottery, we see the design of "three" and an image with a center and something on each side such as the butterfly and the labrys repeated over and over.