Richard Koufey
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Template:Mergeto Richard Koufey (an alter-ego of Spike Jonze) is leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban dance group that performs in the malls and streets of Torrance, California.
Koufey was allegedly spotted by music video director Spike Jonze performing Fatboy Slim's hit single Rockafella Skank with a boombox on the street. Spike filmed him and showed the video to Fatboy, who loved it. Jonze filmed Koufey and his dance group performing Fatboy's next song Praise You outside a movie theater for Praise You's music video. The resulting video was a huge success and Koufey and his troupe were invited to New York City to perform it for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. The movie received the awards for Best Direction, Breakthrough, and Best Choreography. All of this was seen in the documentary Torrance Rises.