10 Dance #4

Volume 4 of Inouesatoh's 10 Dance arrives with a cover that captures the charged tension between two elegantly dressed male dancers — one dark-haired in intricate lace sleeves, the other curly-haired and adorned with a jeweled star emblem — their faces turned close as if mid-conversation or mid-competition. The bold listing of ballroom disciplines — Cha-Cha-Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, and Jive — frames the image and signals just how high the competitive stakes remain in this series. Inouesatoh's detailed, expressive linework gives the pair a magnetic presence that makes this volume hard to set down.