Rize chronicles a dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.Rize chronicles a dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.Rize chronicles a dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDavid LaChapelle was introduced to krump dancing on the set of Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" video, which he also directed.
- Quotes
Tight Eyez: We're not gonna be clones of the commercial hip-hop world... because that's been seen for so many years.Somebody's waitin'on something different... another generation of kids with morals and values... that they won't need... what's being commercialized or tailor-made for them... custom-made, because I feel that we're custom-made. And we're of more value than any piece of jewelry... or any car or any big house that anybody could buy.
I am not the biggest fan of hip-hop, rap, r&b, etc., but I decided to check out this documentary because I recently moved to LA and I appreciate seeing people who take difficult life situations and turn them into something positive, and that is exactly what happens in this movie. All of these kids living in the so called dangerous parts of Los Angeles take their frustration and their fear and channel it into a unique style of dancing, which is often quite a spectacle to behold.
It starts with a man who calls himself Tommy the Clown, who entertains at children's parties much like most other types of clowns, except that he specializes in an amazing dance performance rather than magic tricks and balloon animals, and before long other dancing clown groups are popping up all over the place, mostly staffed by kids and teenagers who otherwise would more than likely get involved in a life of crime.
This is an amazing look into the reality of the lives that these people live, right down to individual dance parties, some of the unwritten social rules of the people who dance together (the styles change so quickly that they can tell who has missed even a single day of dancing), and tragic events that take place in their everyday lives. Even if this is not your style of music or dancing, this documentary is definitely worth a look to see how some people take something so difficult and so bad in their lives and turn it into something good. Truly inspiring.
- Anonymous_Maxine
- Jan 14, 2006
Details
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,336,391
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,574,787
- Jun 26, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $4,646,889
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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