"In The the Company of stars" published by Flammarion, 140 pictures, 24cmx32,5cm, 190 pages, graphic designer Tom Uferas, www.tometleo.com "What is a great photograph? It is a photograph that makes the viewer's experience echo the emotions felt by the photographer when the shutter clicked. The work of Gérard Uféras takes us to the very heart of Dance. Because he has had the rare privilege of spending time with the exponents of that art, he offers us profoundly personal images of outstanding imaginative richness that go both close and deep. Gérard becomes a second choreographer, with his own vision and his own art of placing bodies in spa ce, in accordance with the light and the geometry of the movements. But there are also the moments when the dance stops, when the tension drops, when tiredness causes a slackening that is so moving; when we see revealed both the character of these men and women and their fragility. This is when his sensibility touches us most deeply. He offers us images of people like ourselves, with our weaknesses and our yearning for unexpected encounters, whether in friendship or love. When mind and heart come together in this way, it means that we are in the presence of a very great artist. We would like to use a very strong word, but we do not dare, so we say that we are witnessing that great mystery known as Grace." Willy Ronis, photographer