New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre became a global phenomenon, the latter still generates far less mainstream coverage. To this day, a cloud of mystery still ...

'The Inspection' director Elegance Bratton juxtaposes many elements, from interviews to reenactments, to inventively tell the origin story of a musical movement. The first few minutes of “Move Ya Body ...

There's a moment in Elegance Bratton's illuminating documentary Move Ya Body: The Birth of House when Vince Lawrence, a key architect of the music genre, recounts his experience at Disco Demolition ...

House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time. That’s an awfully clinical description of the sound that shakes the floor and the walls at dance clubs around the world. What’s ...

A Chicago tale beginning with the infamous Comiskey Park Disco Demolition night and ending with the global rise of house music as sweet revenge opens the 10th edition of the nonfiction film festival ...

The documentary selection at this year’s Sundance celebrates the work of multiple BIPOC filmmakers shedding light on untold narratives of both celebrated and unduly neglected figures from their ...

The sounds from Chicago that would forever alter dance music get an overdue documentary treatment in Move Ya Body: The Birth of House. The film is directed by Elegance Bratton (The Inspection) and ...

New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre became a global phenomenon, the latter still generates far less mainstream coverage. To this day, a cloud of mystery still ...

In his latest feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Inspection' director asks who gets credited for their contributions to American culture. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic At a certain ...

“Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” tells the story of how house music was born in the late 1970s. A history reconstructed by director Elegance Bratton (“The Inspection”) through the memories of the ...