The grounds were likely a former rice paddy, but it was easier to imagine a cricket match there than women threshing rice.

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Palmer appeared as part of the Arts in Schools program at the Atlanta-based Threshing Floor Academy of Arts and Sciences Inc.

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More than 80, 000 women worked the land, driving tractors, threshing, ploughing, tree-felling, hedging and ditching as part of the Women's Land Army.

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But while his father did contract work for fell farmers round Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria with lime-spreaders and threshing machines, Edward, at 14, was on a JCB planting signs on the new M6.

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Nawab leapt on the kick-starter of his motorcycle, and in one smooth motion flicked on the lights and shot out of the threshing-floor gates, onto the quarter-mile driveway leading from the heart of the farm to the road.

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With evident pleasure, Wiseman turns back to the choreographers and dancers, whom he photographs not in the manner of the commercial cinema, where bodies are broken up into threshing limbs, but in full frame, top to bottom, with space around them, so we can see the incredible things they are capable of as well as, inevitably, their mistakes, missteps, and gradual improvements.

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