Check Your Body at the Door

Jan 1, 2012

1h 1m

★ 5.0

Overview

Check Your Body At The Door is a documentary film about some remarkable underground house dancers in NYC during the golden decade of the 1990s. It follows master free-stylists into the clubs, their jobs, and their everyday lives. Filmed in the studio as well, the dancers’ virtuosic moves are brilliantly revealed in silhouette or light pools. In their words they describe the importance of clubbing, why they dance, how they dance, and what it means.

Genres

Documentary

Music

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Cast

Self

Willi Ninja

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Brian Green

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Barbara Tucker

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Archie Burnett

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Conrad "SP" Rochester

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Adrian Alicea

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Iriena Herrera

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