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NON FICTION | AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

Vincent Paterson’s iconic choreography will be remembered for the impact it has had on the music industry and on generations of artists. Who can forget Smooth Criminal? It’s etched in our hearts and minds. —  Paula Abdul

The impressive history of Vincent Paterson’s work and collaboration with iconic artists is phenomenal and will last forever.— Barbara Mandrell

The Way You Make Me Feel surely is the best video ever made. — Steven Spielberg

An autobiographical account of one of the best choreographers from the 1980s.

Paterson created legendary works for Madonna and Michael Jackson including Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour, her Marie Antoinette Vogue performance for MTV and the choreography for her videos Express Yourself and Vogue. For Michael Jackson—with whom he worked for over 17 years—Paterson created the Bad Tour, as well as videos for Smooth Criminal, Blood on the Dance Floor among others.

Among the many films he choreographed, he directed the musical sequences in Lars Von Trier’s Dancer In The Dark, The Birdcage, Closer, Hook. He has also directed and choreographed many operas, plays and movies all over the world.

In this autobiography, he recounts some of his out-of-the-ordinary encounters, intense rehearsals, tours, the disappointments and successes, up until his most recent collaborations. It’s a dive into the very heart of the world of dance that reveals its importance in our world of images.

Vincent Paterson is a choreographer and director who travels the globe, creating new works and teaching master classes for dance and directing programs. He started dancing at the age of 24, but his career skyrocketed when he was featured as one of the main dancers in the music video for Michael Jackson’s Beat it.