'This film has not been sped up in any way,' says the very first frame of David LaChapelle's feature-length documentary Rize. It's an unusual caveat but one that turns out to be entirely warranted, ...

Given David LaChapelle’s hipper-than-thou status as a sought-after fashion photographer and music video director, I expected “Rize” to be an exercise in visual wankery, each shot designed and tweaked ...

IT was created by a birthday-party clown and looks like a spastic combination of street combat, African tribal dance and break dancing. But krumping – an explosive new West Coast dance style featured ...

American glamour photographer David LaChapelle is hardly your everyday documentary maker. LaChapelle moves in rarefied circles. Since he got his first break, through Andy Warhol, he has had a stream ...

Accomplished photographer and music video director David LaChapelle is known for training his creative eye on stars like Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera, but for the past three ...

In 2005, fashion photographer David LaChappelle made a documentary called “Rize” about a dance style that was born on the streets of LA. Now, two of the dancers featured in the film are taking this ...

“Rize,” David LaChapelle’s powerful documentary about a galvanizing dance movement created on the streets of South-Central Los Angeles, opens with news footage from the 1965 riots in Watts. Over ...

Agroup of African American teenagers squeezes into a narrow parking lot bordered by a chain-link fence. The camera elbows its way into the crowd, focusing on a young man, his bare, muscled torso ...

Dance2Connect, founded by Matt Sczerzek, is a professional programme bringing street and contemporary dancers together in a supported space for exchange, growth and creative connection. The programme ...

Outrage wants to share krump's principles with a new generation. It’s a winter’s day at the beach in Southern California—meaning it takes no time before professional dancer Darren “Outrage” King peels ...