LA-based filmmaker and photographer Pip Cowley sought to spotlight eight professional dancers in different locations around the city. The film's mission is to present dance as a form of protest, an act of cathartic release, and a method of peaceful assembly.

Gil Scott-Heron's "Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams)" soundtracks emotive and power scenes of dance from Aahkilah, Greg "6adnewz" Aldana, Hitmakerchinx, Hob Dot, Rameer Colon, Sam Donohue, and Sasha Mallory.

"I present Krump as a way to show my physical and emotional trauma," says Big Mijo, one of the founders of the South Central-born Krumping dance movement. "It's a way for liberation, my therapy, my confession to this circumstance."

A clip of Big Mijo's dance facing a line of police officers, as featured in this film, garnered five million views on Twitter and was covered by national papers. His visceral pain and raw emotion is mirrored by all the dancers Hold On who have transcended the failures and vagaries of speech to create a new language with their bodies.