Dancing in A-Yard

  • Rated 8.0 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2023
  • 1h 12m
  • Documentary

In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, a group of young men, willing to take a chance to be mocked in the yard, start a dance class led by French choreographer Dimitri Chamblas. This class quickly becomes an intoxicating escape from their grim reality so they decide to create a dance show. In this exceptional context, the inmates engage with overwhelming sincerity, evoking their childhood, ganglife, the crimes, the prison, and their desire for transformation. Beyond damaged lives and a prison system on the edge of the abyss, DANCING IN A-YARD explores redemption and the capacity of human beings to reinvent themselves, when given a chance. And more importantly, how art and introspection can help see the light.

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Director
Manuela Dalle
Starring
Dimitri Chamblas, Dr. Bidhan Ro, Dimitri Gales, Kenneth Webb

Cast

  • Dimitri Chamblas

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  • Dr. Bidhan Ro

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  • Dimitri Gales

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  • Kenneth Webb

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  • Antonio Toy

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  • Jonathan Hammond

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  • Baleegh Brown

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  • Terry Bell

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  • Tyson Atlas

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  • Albert 'AJ' Beckley

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