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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tommy Johnson tells us that being a clown saved his life. He was a “big-time” drug dealer in Los Angeles. He went to jail. These facts are recounted early in ...

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 ...

In honor of the 10th anniversary of krump, an energetic street-style dance with African roots that originated in Los Angeles, USC Visions and Voices hosted a conversation in Annenberg 207 on Tuesday ...

LOS ANGELES - Dancers in a new documentary have a lot to say about an inner-city craze called krumping that's transformed their lives, but when asked to describe how it's done, they get tongue tied.

The new documentary film, "Rize" looks at a grassroots dance movement that started in South Central Los Angeles, called krimping or clowning. This unique dance form is the brainchild of Thomas Johnson ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. American glamour photographer David LaChapelle is hardly your everyday documentary maker. LaChapelle moves in rarefied circles. Since he ...

In a small Inglewood house near the end of a quiet, dead-end street, Marquisa “Miss Prissy” Gardner and Christopher “Lil’ C” Toler are mock arguing about a bag of Martha’s burritos he’s carrying. “You ...

David LaChapelle is an acclaimed photographer and videographer — who has made videos for J.Lo, among others. He completes the jump to the big screen with Rize, his award-winning documentary about ...

The dancers in “Rize” are so impossibly muscular, so preternaturally athletic and limber from the rigors of krumping and clowning, you could easily imagine them inspiring a new workout trend. It would ...