The Rising Sun
The Rising Sun
1/5/2022 | 1h 18m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
A relentlessly sunny documentary about an international band of crazy, break-dancing kids.
A relentlessly sunny documentary about an international band of crazy, break-dancing kids — the Roc Kidz Crew — who turn their passion into a lifestyle.
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The Rising Sun is a local public television program presented by Cascade PBS
The Rising Sun
The Rising Sun
1/5/2022 | 1h 18m 31sVideo has Closed Captions
A relentlessly sunny documentary about an international band of crazy, break-dancing kids — the Roc Kidz Crew — who turn their passion into a lifestyle.
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The Rising Sun... Our worlds, our planet, and our planet rocks!
That's OK. (Laughing) Cut, cut, cut!
(Laughing) (Whistling and Heckling) The Rising Sun... party my friend!
(Yelling and Hooting) Enjoy yourself!
(Laughing) Peace!
(Laughing) (Singing in German) (Laughing) ♪ Ladies and Gentlemen, are you ready?
(Crowd Cheering) For the biggest, craziest, funniest street show - The Roc Kidz Tour!
♪ This was only the warm-up!
Now before we start with our big show and the sensation, I would like to introduce us.
We are street artists and we love our job because it's our passion.
And we are the Roc Kidz Crew!
(Making Mooing Sounds) (Speaking German) Yo!
What's up?
(Laughing) (Stuttering) Crap!
♪ ♪ ♪ I think that one day it starts moving and there's more dance moves and they immediately capture the attention... because if you don't know what they are doing, you can feel it.
Maybe not understand, but feel that something is following a different energy.
♪ ♪ ♪ He looks like chocolato... but his name is Chicolata from Turkey!
Julia from Japan!
Far, far away!
And her brother, Benny!
Benny is from Japan!
Caesar, and he's also from Turkey!
(Crowd Cheering) ♪ Navid is from Iran!
Romanski from Switzerland!
Me - I'm Massimo from Sicilia!
(Crowd Cheering) And last but not least... Stix from Turkey!
♪ Yahhhhhhhh!
(Laughing) ♪ And we are the Roc Kidz Crew!
(Loud Buzzing) (Loud Buzzing) ♪ (Crowd Cheering) Relax...you can look but don't touch!
She comes from Brazil!
♪ Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
Let me hear it for the big, craziest funniest show with the Roc Kidz Crew!
♪ (Crowd Cheering) ♪ ♪ ♪ (Crowd Cheering) ♪ ♪ Our show is your show!
And your money is our money!
- Thank you!
-We also take bills, credit cards... ♪ - This is me, Brahim, from France.
When I started...
I was alone in my city, you know?
5 years, every day, maybe 4 or 5 hours per day... Only practice.
I stopped school to practice.
I stopped everything.
I don't see my family, nothing.
Only practice.
I get tired, I go to sleep.
Like this for 5 years, you know?
♪ Love dance, you know?
♪ (Laughing and Speaking German) (Bang, Bang, Bang) (Laughing) (Bang, Bang, Bang) ♪ That's our job... just how we live!
That's done now.
(Laughing and Carrying On) (Speaking Italian) Now here - Iran...America.
♪ ♪ (Crowd Cheering) ♪ ♪ It's a magic, yes.
It's a kind of magic.
Sometimes I feel that everything works in a kind of harmony, and when more people are involved in this kind of harmony, I call it magic.
And this is a magic that never can be repeated.
Every time it's different, so every time it needs people and needs attention and needs sharing of something.
♪ This is like heaven!
♪ (Splash) ♪ Yahhhhhhh!
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (Speaking German) (Speaking German) ♪ ♪ (Crowd Cheering Wildly) One more thing... Like I said, you got like, Benny, Ruen... You have like Caveman, you had Gerald, Pablo, Charles... and then you see Benny and he comes along and he's just like, he's doing stuff that's amazing them, and they amaze everybody!
They influenced the whole scene.
But then him that came out of nowhere... Benny came out of nowhere and just kind of like outshined... not outshined them, but...
They were like right here and then Benny went here, so everybody had to step it up, you know?
So it was kind of like a... Benny influenced so many dancers in the world that it's just...
It's amazing to see, like even to this day.
(Speaking Italian) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (Speaking Japanese) ♪ This is my world, this is my planet, and my planet rocks!
♪ (Speaking Japanese) (Chattering in Japanese) My name is B-Boy Fuku Chan from Tokyo.
(Laughing) (Speaking Japanese) ♪ ♪ You can go to Australia, Japan, Brazil... and together we can dance, so...
It seems like I've travelled more than 50 countries.
All the time, it's crazy.
And I never thought I coud do this when it started.
Here in Paris!
(Sirens and Horns Honking) (Laughing) ♪ ♪


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