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In David LaChapelle’s heartfelt, inspiring documentary “Rize,” which opens Friday, young residents of South Central Los Angeles channel the struggles of inner-city life into “krumping.
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This frenetic freestyle dance style is performed by troupes that battle each other with aggressive shimmies, shakes and other gyrations. (It’s stated at the start of the movie that the dancing was not manipulated by special effects.)
Krumping, which emerged in the aftermath of the 1992 L.
A. riots, is a thriving alternative to gang warfare.
“These kids are from the hardest places of the ghetto,” says LaChapelle, 36, a renowned photographer who learned about krumping while shooting a Christina Aguilera video in 2002. “Their parents and brothers and sisters are in prison or drug addicts,” he elaborates.
“Early on you have to choose if you are a Crip, a Blood or a dancer,” LaChapelle says of local gang choices. “These artists choose to create rather than destroy.
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For 21/2 years, LaChapelle followed the lives of dancers like Tommy (The Clown) Johnson, who pioneered the art when he began training party performers as hip-hop clowns in 1992; they, in turn, formed their own groups. He was there when Tommy&rsq
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Faces, Close-ups stand for Choreography: A Deleuzian Judge of So You Muse You Throne Dance
Sherril Dodds and Colleen Hooper
Facial Dancing and rendering Choreographic Interface
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3 Held in Drive-By Killings
Three people were arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in the deaths of a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting that Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton called an act of domestic terrorism.
Quinesha Dunford, 15, and Demario Moore, 13, both students at Manual Arts High School, were standing at the mouth of an alley near the intersection of Normandie and Slauson avenues in South Los Angeles when shots were fired from a passing car about 7 p.m. Wednesday, said Los Angeles Police Department Det. Rudy Lemos.
Quinesha stumbled a few feet to a nearby house where she died. Demario died en route to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, police said.
Homicide detectives got a lucky break almost immediately after the shooting from a witness who wrote down the license plate number of the car. Police found the car several hours later, then one suspect, and then two others.
Police arrested Marcel Harling, 18, and two juvenile suspects, ages 16 and 17, a short distance from where the killings occurred.
The killings were related to a long-running brawl between two local gangs, police said. Neither Demario nor Quinesha was involved with gangs, Lemos said, and it is not known why they were targeted. Family members and ne