From 1945 to 1985, from Senegal to the Congo Basin, from the Sahara to the Gulf of Benin, Michel Huet photographed African life, especially the ago-old rituals and ceremonies enacted to the beat of drums, the chant of voices, and the urgent movement of bodies. His unique images, accompanied by ethnographer Claude Savary's sensitive texts, are a stunning testimonial to these rapidly vanishing cultural traditions as well as a lasting document of the essence of African dance.