When you mix New Yorkers Flizzo, Opt, Jay Donn, Sedo + Danny, contorting their bodies in their east Brooklyn style of street dance called flexing, made famous by the 2013 documentary, ’Flex Is Kings’, with the afrobeat sound invented by Nigerian Fela Kuti, you get short ‘Fela Flex’ directed by Dominick Sheldon. Shot in a dark studio space, […]
A New York Flex on Nowness.com Wake up to some serious dance moves in film ‘Flex Is Kings’. Featuring dancers Bones the Machine + DJ Aaron, the kings of Brooklyn’s bone-popping street dance, co-director Michael Beach Nichols tells NOWNESS how the storytelling is dancing, adding ‘You’re not watching different dancers doing the same moves. Each performer summons his background […]