Doubletime
Year | 2007 |
Director(s) | Stephanie Johnes |
Runtime | 82 min |
Producer(s) | Alexandra Johnes, Andrea Meditch, Stephanie Johnes |
In the last 30 years, jump roping has moved off the sidewalks and into the gym, now featuring astounding acrobatics, lightning speed and international competition. Doubletime follows two of the oldest and most accomplished American teams: the Bouncing Bulldogs of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and The Double Dutch Forces from Columbia, South Carolina. The Bulldogs represent the best of gymnastic freestyle jumping found mostly in white suburbia, while the Forces belong to the inner-city African-American tradition of Double Dutch. Watch as these young teams face each other for the first time at the Holiday Classic at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.