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“A landmark documentary...delineates how virtuosity becomes identity”
- Debra Cash, NPR/WBUR

Production Team

Review (NPR/WBUR)

05/09/11

Other observers have been able to convey hip hop and house dance's enviable virtuosity. But it has took Sally's Sommer's patient commitment to delineate the way virtuosity becomes identity.

NPR/WBUR

Published: May 9, 2001

"Check Your Body at the Door - Rough Cut (54 minutes) Film"
Review by Debra Cash

1998

CYB Project & Film
1998
01/01/98

Small shoots held.

November 1996

CYB Project & Film
Dancers
November 1996
11/01/96

4th Shoot held at Les Poulets.

1996

CYB Project & Film
1996
01/01/96

Charles Atlas joins as Director/Editor.

Oct/Nov 1995

CYB Project & Film
Dancers
Oct/Nov 1995
10/01/95

Smaller shoots conducted by Charlie Gelber.

Late Summer 1995

Late Summer 1995
08/01/95

Co-Producer Barbara Tsumagari joins team.

May 1994

CYB Project & Film
May 1994
05/01/94

Collaborator and director Michael Schwartz dies.

1994

CYB Project & Film
1994
01/01/94

11-minute version of film completed by Gary Bradley.

Late 1993-1995

CYB Project & Film
Late 1993-1995
12/01/93

Tapes edited, interviews transcribed, designs for film made.

July-August 1993

July-August 1993
07/01/93

Shoot at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theatre, at Juilliard.