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CYB at Dance Camera West Festival in L.A. on May 3!

  • Kris Buxenbaum (above) and Adrian Alicea (below)
  • Archie Burnett
  • Asia Moon
  • Brahms "Bravo" LaFortune
  • Colleen "Miss Twist" Soto
  • Sound Factory Bar
  • Brian "Footwork" Green (left) and Shannon Selby (right) at Les Poulets
  • Courtney "French" Ffrench (left) and Archie Burnett (right) at Les Poulets
  • "Peace" Moore
  • Conrad "SP" Rochester (left) and Carlos Sanchez (right)
  • DJ Omar Hernandez at Les Poulets
  • Ejoe Wilson (left) and Conrad Rochester (right)
  • Check Your Body dancers at Lincoln Center shoot
  • Check Your Body dancers at Lincoln Center shoot
  • Pebbles Zimmerman
  • Ruth Monroe
  • Executive Producer Sally R. Sommer
  • Adrian Alicea
  • Asia Moon
  • Conrad "SP" Rochester
  • Ejoe Wilson
  • Courtney "French" Ffrench
  • Courtney "French" Ffrench
  • Check Your Body shoot at Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater
  • Check Your Body dancers with Sally Sommer (front) at Lincoln Center shoot
  • Iriena Herrera
  • Omar Kashim Henry
  • Camera Operator Mark Robison
  • Director/Director of Photography Michael Schwartz
  • Behind the scenes at Lincoln Center shoot
  • Director & Editor Charles Atlas

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What is Check Your Body at the door?

Check Your Body at the Door is a documentary about some remarkable underground-House dancers in NYC.  Filmed during the golden decade of the 1990s, it follows a core group of master free-stylists to the clubs, to their jobs and their everyday lives.  Archie Burnett, Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune, the late Willi Ninja, Brian “Footwork” Green, Barbara Tucker, Ejoe Wilson, Conrad “SP” Rochester and Asia Moon, among many others, talk about why they dance and what it means.  Also filmed in the studio against a white background, in silhouette, or in light pools, their virtuosic moves and choreography are striking.

News, Reviews & Articles

CYB at Dance Camera West Festival, May 3 03/29/13

Check Your Body at the Door has been selected for the Dance Camera West...

CYB in Paris and Hamburg, Sept. & Oct. 08/24/12

CYBATD will tour to premiere in France and Germany, September 29-October 1. Screenings will be held in Paris (at La Cinémath...

CYB at The Modern in Ft. Worth, July 7 07/07/12

The Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth Modern Dance Festival will screen CYBATD in its "Dancing in the Streets!" film presentation, July 7, 2012.

CYB Nominated for Astaire Award 05/03/12

CYBATD has been nominated for Outstanding Documentary Film by the Fred & Adele Astaire Awards.  The award ceremony will be held June 4th, 2012 at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

CYB at Danspace Project, February 23-25 02/22/12

An excerpt from CYBATD will be screened as part of Danspace Project's PLATFORM 2012: Parallels, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, February 23-25.  Houston-Jones has brought together a group of choreographers whose work is deeply informed by Hip-Hop, Voguing, and other...

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"I like to live in angles.  So, anything that I do, I specifically make sure that either my angles are clean or it’s gonna stop in a particular shape. "
- Archie Burnett

Featured Dancers

To see more dancers click here.

Archie Burnett
Omar Henry
Bravo LaFortune
Ejoe Wilson
more dancers...

© 2011 by Check Your Body at the Door. All Rights Reserved.

This project was supported in part by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Initiative to Preserve America’s Dance (NIPAD). Check your Body at the Door is a sponsored project of New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA).

Photos by Andrew Eccles and Check Your Body at the Door.

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