Double Dutch in The Media
Doubletime, a documentary from Discovery Films, tells the story of the historic meet-up of rope skipping and double dutch. The film follows two top teams; the Bouncing Bulldogs and the Double Dutch Forces, as they train to compete against each other for the very first time. The competition takes place at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.
In 2005, Elizabeth Verity, aka Double Dutch Girl, is jumping her way around the U.S. raising money for the troops. Double Dutch Girl has already jumped rope in St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and several small towns throughout the Midwest. Ultimately, her goal is to jump rope in all 50 states.
The 2007 Disney Channel original movie Jump In! features double dutch as the central element of its plot. Jump In! features the Dutch Dragons, based on a real double Dutch team from 1997 in Harlem. Jump!, an award-winning documentary following five teams from around the United States who push their physical and psychological limits in pursuit of winning the World Rope Skipping Championship, also premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2007
In 2010, Saltare was on season 5 of America's Best Dance Crew and the group featured single rope and double dutch in their dance routines.
A 2010 PBS documentary, New York Street Games, includes Whoopi Goldberg describing double dutch.
On January 15, 2007, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Google homepage featured a double Dutch logo with black children playing with white children, emblematic of the realization of Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963.
The Dutch Girl character from Wee Sing's Grandpa's Magical Toys partially gets her name from double dutch.
The music video to the 2010 track by DJ Fresh, Gold Dust, centres around double Dutch skipping.In the music video of Yves Larock hit 2007 track Rise Up, double dutch is the theme used.
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