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Still, David LaChapelle's documentary Rize is a joyous, satisfying account of the newest dance moves from Los Angeles. In the late s, LaChapelle began filming post-hip-hop dancers: highly athletic, frenzied, shaking all over. They perform almost Pentecostal movements, like the ecstasies that gave the Quakers and the Shakers their names.

A disclaimer stresses that nothing we see has been digitally speeded up. According to Rize , there are about 50 clown crews in L. Clowns are always a little scary.

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An intimidated 3-year-old guest of honor at a birthday party watches Tommy and his crew and doesn't know what to make of them. LaChapelle has a clue, though. He places the rise of clowning against the hopelessness following the Rodney King riots. Dancers come on up and get in each other's faces, as if ready to square off. Sometimes, the moves are accompanied with stripperish ass rotation and the ripping off of sweat-soaked shirts.

Children do it, too. Clowners and krumpers meet annually for sold-out dance contests at the Forum sports stadium in Inglewood, and Rize takes in the best of these new-style dancers in concert. Good news from South-Central is hard to come by. But LaChapelle is careful to record the backgrounds of dancers such as the wiry champion Ms.