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The Spirit Moves: Brooklyn Flexes
Thursday, July 16th, 7:30pm
The Spirit Moves: Brooklyn Flexes
(Exploring the evolution of homegrown, popular dance in New York City over the last 100 years. Part 3 in the 3 part series.)
Curated by Sophie Windsor Clive
Flex is Kings
Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols, 2013, 83 min
Flex Is Kings takes place in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, where high crime rates and diminished opportunities have left the young men growing into adulthood few choices and fewer resources, pushing so many to lives dependent on crime and gangs. Yet there is a large and growing group resisting the notion that their prospects are limited to a powerless existence.
On these streets a dance community rose, eager for an avenue of expression and determined to create a positive force in their neighborhood. "Flex" is the name of the dance style it involves dance battle competitions that are at once flights of fancy as well as poetic evocations of the streets gun battles, romantic interludes, run-ins with authorities. The film is structured around a season of Battlefest, the central organizing event of the Flex movement, and focuses on some of the community's key personalities.
Followed by Q&A with the directors Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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