Tommy the Clown, professor of marketing - Tommy the Clown shook his giant rainbow-colored afro and shouted into the microphone as two kids standing at opposite ends of a stage stared each other down.
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Hip-hop clowns dance away the 'hood - David LaChapelle opens his feature-length documentary, Rize, with television news images of South Central Los Angeles burning during the Watts riots in 1965 and the Rodney King riots in 1992.
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Tommy the Clown Brings Major Dance Competition to Los Angeles - Tommy the Clown, internationally recognized "father of krumping" and a leading proponent of positive values for urban kids and teens, presents Battle Zone 2005, the largest dance competition of its kind, on Friday, Dec. 9, from 8 p.m., at the Los Angeles Forum.
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Tommy the Clown Brings Battle Zone to Los Angeles Forum Dec. 9 -  Tommy the Clown, internationally recognized "father of krumping" and a leading proponent of positive values for urban kids and teens, presents Battle Zone 2005, the largest dance competition of its kind, on Friday, Dec. 9, from 8 p.m., at the Los Angeles Forum.
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Hip-hop, clowns, and war dances meet on the street in Rize. - A former drug dealer who now hosts children's birthday parties, Tommy is credited here with creating the dance style known as "clowning," which combines the physical comedy of a clown with hip-hop moves, many of which begin with a base form called "the stripper dance."
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You don't want to face the gunfire of Compton? - But like all good dance crazes, clowning has a rival: “krumping”.
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Rize director gets his krump on. - David LaChappelle's new film Rize prefaces its document of the radical urban dance movement 'krumping' with the disclaimer that none of the footage has been sped up; that said, even audiences familiar with the dancing will occasionally find themselves in disbelief that bodies can move so quickly
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New Releases: Rize - David LaChapelle's Rize, a documentary about a type of freestyle dance called "krumping" that originated on the streets of South Central Los Angeles, is a powerful and visually compelling portrayal of human spirit, a tale of hope in the face of poverty, crime and desperation, with a real-life cast of characters far more compelling than any Hollywood screenwriter could invent.
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Krumpers shine in 'Rize,' but film loses cred - There is a new dance on the streets of South Central Los Angeles. n
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First-time director explores krumping - It's a short drive from the buttery glow of the Chateau Marmont hotel above the Sunset Strip,
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"Rize" is Krumptacular - In “Rize” David LaChapelle goes against the popular convention of today’s documentaries and lets the people tell their stories in low key, matter of fact ways and supplements their information with vignettes of the dancing that drives the film.
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Visually lush ‘Rize’ a bit repetitive - Documentary looks at clowning and krumping in Los Angeles
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