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Rize: A Film Analysis

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The film Rize is a dance film and documentary based in Los Angeles California in the early 1990s. This documentary was split into three different sections about the different parts of dance involved. This film has a strong soundtrack and creative ties to African styles of dance and culture. The first part of the film was about a style of dance that I have never seen before. This style of dance is known as “clowning”. Clowning is a style of dance that started on the West Coast. The first part of the movie had a series of interviews and introduced the clowning dance style. I really liked this part because I never thought that this style of dance was actually taken seriously. I did not know that dressing up as a clown and dancing in the streets
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