Welcome to the Crystal Palace. This Memphis ice rink becomes every Saturday evening the jookin's laboratory, this undulating dance that is practiced on the tip of sneakers. Lil Buck is one of the stars born here. Like the others, he walks around with a cap screwed on his head, his elbow against the window of an old American. Despite the size of the car, it looks like a baby. Louis Wallecan, the director of this documentary, devoted several years of his life to following him, to understand what the boy has in the head. In Memphis, the crisis dies hard. Dance is a way to translate what is in your head: dreams, annoyances, anger, hopes that will probably never come true.
Lil Buck dances his own. With more determination than the others. He confesses to having put blood to his toes from stepping on pointes. He also wanted to discover other dances and see what the world of ballet could bring to the jookin. He joined
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