Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.
It was the summer of 1979 and disco had taken over the world. For the first time, Black, gay, and female artists were dominating the charts. But a backlash was brewing. On a July night in 1979, nearly 50,000 white teenagers descended on Chicago’s Comiskey Park for “Disco Demolition Night,” where they destroyed records made by mostly Black artists. Many say that the birth of house music comes from this fateful evening. Mixing cinematic recreation, archival materials, and revelatory interviews with the pioneers of house music, Move Ya Body: The Birth of House tells this story in a new way, offering a celebration of the power the dance floor has to liberate us all, and an appreciation of the artists that kept the beat going all night long.
This film was supported by Utah Film Center’s Fiscal Sponsorship Program. Fiscal Sponsorship has supported over 450 projects.
