Dancing in A-Yard

Dancing in A-Yard (2023)

September 30th, 20231h 12min

Documentary
80%

Overview

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.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

The Big One

The Big One


Released on: 1997-09-06
Documentary

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country ...

The Beach Boys - California Surfin

The Beach Boys - California Surfin


Released on: 2004-01-01
Documentary

Wattstax

Wattstax


Released on: 1973-02-04
Music, Documentary

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after t...

Rize

Rize


Released on: 2005-01-15
Documentary

A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came...

America's Greatest Prison Breaks

America's Greatest Prison Breaks


Released on: 2015-12-27
Documentary

A look at the prison breakout of Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional facility, as...

Restoring Hope

Restoring Hope


Released on:
Documentary

This often confronting documentary observes a Māori restorative justice model through the eyes of st...

The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down

The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down


Released on: 2007-03-23
Comedy, Documentary

Tongue-in-cheek look at 20-something singles clubbing and partying in L.A. Voice-over narration, cha...

LA 92

LA 92


Released on: 2017-04-28
History, Documentary

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, viole...

Death and the Judge

Death and the Judge


Released on: 2018-05-09
Documentary, Crime, Family

The documentary, " Death and the Judge", revolves around Iran's most famous criminal judge, Azizmoha...

Last Days of Solitary

Last Days of Solitary


Released on: 2017-03-27
Documentary

In 2011, Maine State Prison launched a pioneering reform program to scale back its use of solitary c...

Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020

Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020


Released on: 2021-10-21
Documentary

A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of trans...

Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson

Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson


Released on:
Documentary, Music

Robbie Robertson. Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson will take place on T...

East LA Interchange

East LA Interchange


Released on: 2015-07-26
Documentary

East L.A. Interchange follows the evolution of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights, the oldest ne...

Los posibles

Los posibles


Released on: 2013-04-01
Documentary

Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofr...

Cruel and Unusual

Cruel and Unusual


Released on: 2006-10-24
Documentary

Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other...

Forbryder på pension

Forbryder på pension


Released on: 2017-10-21
Documentary

Prisoners of the War on Drugs

Prisoners of the War on Drugs


Released on: 1996-01-08
Documentary

From its beginning during the Reagan years through current times, the War on Drugs has left many vic...

Standard Operating Procedure

Standard Operating Procedure


Released on: 2008-02-12
Documentary, War

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Out of Mind, Out of Sight


Released on: 2014-04-27
Documentary

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 1...

Art From Art

Art From Art


Released on: 2022-03-25
Documentary

Experimental research and dissemination documentary about current contemporary art that compiles the...