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| | Moving 'Rize' Has Legs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The visually stunning "Rize" is a specifically focused introduction to a hyperkinetic style of hip-hop dance that's far more athletic, and aggressive, than break dancing. |
 | | But what "Rize" reveals is that in disenfranchised communities beset by multiple blights of poverty, drugs and gang violence, there have always been stubborn, heroic artistic responses. |
 | | The stars of "Rize" are the dancers themselves, from Tommy (who is deservedly proprietary and suffers for it) and young krump pioneers Lil C, Tight Eyes and Dragon (now studying to be a minister), to a pair of battling ladies, La Nina and the utterly charismatic Ms. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300653.html (462 words) |
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