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Shake the Dust
Why this pick
Like Rize, it finds exhilaration and dignity in street-born dance communities, treating movement as a creative outlet amid harsh social conditions with urgent, unpolished visual energy.
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MOVIE2005 1h 26m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Bouncing Cats
Why this pick
This music-driven documentary has Rize’s raw optimism, following youth who turn hip-hop and breakdance into a source of expression, belonging, and social possibility.
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Paris Is Burning
Why this pick
Its intimate immersion in a marginalized dance subculture echoes Rize’s interest in performance as self-invention, chosen family, pride, and survival beyond the mainstream.
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Mad Hot Ballroom
Why this pick
Less abrasive in tone but similarly alive to dance’s transformative power, it follows young people discovering confidence, discipline, and mutual support through movement.
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Style Wars
Why this pick
A foundational, street-level portrait of New York’s graffiti and hip-hop culture, sharing Rize’s feeling of an emergent art form being documented from inside its own community.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.. Director David LaChapelle interviews each dance crew about how their unique dances evolved. A new and positive activity away from the drugs, guns, and gangs that ruled their neighborhood. A raw film about a growing sub-culture movements in America.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kevin Richardson
Himself
Christopher Toler
Himself