Cinema Libre has selected
Dec. 10 as the DVD debut date for documentary filmmaker Calvin Leung’s Furious
Beauty: A Hip-Hop Family, an intimate look at the “dance family”
created by teachers and dance artists Miss Funk (aka: Jackie Lopez) and
Breeze-Lee (aka: Leigh Foaad).
You learn quickly that
writer/director Calvin Leung knows his material. Indeed, he understands the culture, the
people and knows how to tell the story of the Versa-Style Dance Company so that
even the uninitiated are drawn into — and appreciate — the work, the discipline
and the love and care that Lopez and Foaad have poured into their endeavor.
At the core of it are
kids — high school kids from Los Angeles; often at risk — who have come
together to be part of the Versa-Style Dance Company. Here they’ve learned to express their lives,
the things they know (perhaps not fully understood) and the frustrations they
face through dance.
Filmmaker Leung takes us
through (think: Fame) the inner-workings and preparations for their own dance
production — it’s hard work that builds not only confidence and self-esteem, but
in the end … a sense of family.
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