{"id":605864,"date":"2024-01-24T02:54:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-dance-becomes-both-a-reunion-and-a-reckoning\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T02:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T23:54:12","slug":"watch-a-dance-becomes-both-a-reunion-and-a-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-dance-becomes-both-a-reunion-and-a-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Dance Becomes Both a Reunion and a Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27e2a1dbe49\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27e2a1dbe49\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-dance-becomes-both-a-reunion-and-a-reckoning\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Dance_Becomes_Both_a_Reunion_and_a_Reckoning%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Dance Becomes Both a Reunion and a Reckoning&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-dance-becomes-both-a-reunion-and-a-reckoning\/#%E2%80%9CA_Dance_Becomes_Both_a_Reunion_and_a_Reckoning%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Dance Becomes Both a Reunion and a Reckoning&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Dance_Becomes_Both_a_Reunion_and_a_Reckoning%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Dance Becomes Both a Reunion and a Reckoning&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Dance_Becomes_Both_a_Reunion_and_a_Reckoning%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Dance Becomes Both a Reunion and a Reckoning&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In \u201cDaughters,\u201d a group of men gathers in a sunny, brightly hued prison meeting room. Each man wears an orange jumpsuit and has signed on for a 10-week course about fatherhood with life coach Chad Morris in directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton\u2019s entrancing documentary, debuting at the Sundance Film Festival. The body language in the room is instructive, not least because it will change over time. Show-me postures will give way to leaning in. Crickets become questions and confessions as the day nears when the men will attend a dance and luncheon in the repurposed prison gymnasium, reunited with the daughters from whom they\u2019ve been separated.<\/p>\n<p>As interesting as the goings-on in that prison room will be, the stars of \u201cDaughters\u201d are the titular girls: Aubrey Smith, 5, Santana Stewart, 10, Ja\u2019Ana Crudup, 11, and Raziah Lewis, 15. \u201cOne thing I know from working over a decade with girls is they know what they need,\u201d says Patton in voiceover at the film\u2019s outset. She is the founder of Girls for Change, the organization that launched its Date with Dad program 12 years earlier. \u201cDaughters\u201d was shot in the first year the dance was held in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film is rife with visually lyrical moments that connect viewers with the young ones\u2019 sorrows, fears, insights and hopes. In the hands of the directors, cinematographer Michael Cambio Fernandez and editors Troy Lewis and Adelina Bichis, the documentary exercises the kind of compassionate attention that leaves room for the girls to be girls: wee Aubrey, with her missing front teeth and searching eyes, to count all manner of numbers. \u201cI know all my 10 times tables,\u201d she says with slightly breathless pride. But the toughest arithmetic is that which she uses to grasp the seven years before her father, Keith Sweptson, is released from prison. \u201cFirst it was nine years, then the police took away two and it was seven,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in a car and pouting with purpose, Santana expresses her anger at her father, Mark Grimes. In the fatherhood circle, Mark talks about how young he and her mother Diamond were when she was born. (He was 16; she was 14.) Their oldest child often comes across as wiser and more mature than her mother. When we meet Ja\u2019Ana Crudup, she is dancing with friends, all girls, at an outdoor party in the parking lot of a housing complex. Mom Unita chaperones the exuberant gathering. In a session at the prison, her father Frank Walker talks with frustration about not being able to speak with his daughter. Mothers can act as \u201cgatekeepers,\u201d is the takeaway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to see my father, but my mother doesn\u2019t like me to go to jail and see my father behind bars,\u201d Ja\u2019Ana says. While mothers take a backseat in the film, they have voices. LaShawn Smith talks about the night the police descended on the apartment to arrest Keith, as Aubrey slept in another room. Diamond relates how costly staying connected via phone and video is. And Unita shares her own stance on the matter of Ja\u2019Ana and Frank being in touch. It wasn\u2019t until he was in prison, she recounts, that he expressed an interest in spending time with his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>In introducing the girls from youngest to oldest, \u201cDaughters\u201d makes the gentle point that as the girls age, a father\u2019s absence can create greater uncertainty and unease in the world. Teenager Raziah wipes away tears as she talks about the milestones her father Alonzo has missed, and will continue to miss. Her mother Sherita voices fears that her daughter might hurt herself. By juxtaposing images between the girls and their fathers, the filmmakers suture wounds even as they make the familial and cultural scars <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent. A shot of Aubrey looking out the window is intercut with a close-up of Keith, a much smaller window casting wan daylight in his cell. Her window has blinds, his bars.<\/p>\n<p>When the Date with Dad dance comes shortly after the film\u2019s midpoint, it does not disappoint. Five weeks into the session, the fathers were measured for their suits. Now they sit, nervous and oh-so- handsome, in a corridor of waxed linoleum and white concrete block corridors. The girls arrive, a procession of sequined and sparkly dresses and straightened, braided, coiffed tresses. Even so, worry floats in the room: Will I recognize my daddy? Will my daughter recognize me? Santana, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> face is a thing of beauty and armor, makes her way toward the men. When she sees Mark, her shout of \u201cDaddy!\u201d is as joyous as it is shattering.<\/p>\n<p>With mindful intimacy, the documentary nudges us to consider its gaze. It shoots from a low height to reflect Aubrey\u2019s vantage. It stands back in admiration of a solo dance that Santana performs in a sodium lamp-lit parking lot. Her fierce movements celebrate the stout strength she\u2019s shown since we first met her. In voiceover, she recounts how she handles her anger with a dance that epitomizes her approach: \u201cBody. Space. Energy. Time.\u201d Time is crucial in \u201cDaughters\u201d: doing it, living its consequences, pondering its meaning. From the opening \u2014 a black-and-white montage that floats on Kelsey Lu\u2019s plaintive piano score \u2014\u00a0\u201cDaughters\u201d shares striking DNA with another Sundance-launched doc, Garrett Bradley\u2019s \u201cTime.\u201d Like that gem, this quietly consequential film makes clear the weight of mass incarceration on families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDaddy made some bad decision,\u201d Keith tells Aubrey at one point. \u201cIt\u2019s not your fault that Daddy went away.\u201d The film is mum about what those mistakes might have been. (That\u2019s what search engines are for.) At first, this omission seems wrongheaded. What if some of these fathers robbed other children of theirs? It\u2019s a legitimate quandary, but one the filmmakers thoughtfully table, instead remaining bound to Aubrey, Santana, Ja\u2019Ana and Raziah. The film is their story and their keepsake. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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