Two years after the publication of Great Twentieth Century Dancers, renowned dance critic Gérard Mannoni’s latest book, devoted to the greatest choreographers, includes over 50 portraits, presented chronologically.

Dance has a long history of transmission. After the gentler transitions of the 19^th century, 20^th century artistic creation has been fed on a permanent fireworks display, and is constantly inventing new steps, new lifts, new shapes and a new relationship to sound, costumes, the performance space, the audience and the light, and is always pushing the human body to new limits. The great choreographers in this book are the veritable craftsmen and women of that history, which is presented here in a particularly lively way.

Ruth Saint-Denis and Ted Shawn – Michel Fokine – Mary Wigman – Fedor Lopoukhov – Bronislava Nijinska – Kossian Goleizovsky – Jean Börlin – Martha Graham – Leonide Massine – Kurt Jooss – George Balanchine – Frederick Ashton – Leonide Lavrovski – Serge Lifar – Agnes de Mille – Aurel Milloss – Anthony Tudor – Birgit Cullberg – Catherine Dunham – Alwyn Nikolaïs – Jerome Robbins – Merce Cunningham – Roland Petit – John Cranko – Bob Fosse – Maurice Béjart – Youri Grigorovitch – Kenneth MacMillan – Paul Taylor – Alvin Ailey – Pierre Lacotte – Trisha Brown – John Neumeier – Lucinda Childs – Pina Bausch – Carolyn Carlson – Germaine Acogny – Mats Ek – Jiri Kylian – William Forsythe – Ushio Amagatsu – Jean-Claude Gallotta – Dominique Bagouet – Maguy Marin – Saburo Teshigawara – Angelin Preljocaj – Thierry Malandain – Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker – Jean-Christophe Maillot – Philippe Decouflé – Wim Wandekeybus – Sasha Waltz

The portraits of more than 50 of the greatest choreographers of the century, by dance specialist Gérard Mannoni.