20 Feb 2007
Busby Berkeley: A Journey with a Star
Profile of famed dance director Busby Berkeley's career, in particular "The Gang's All Here"
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This documentary will explore the Afro-Caribbean dance, ‘whining’ alongside the practice of twerking to analyze respectability politics, pressures to accommodate whiteness, and gendered criticism of sexual expression within the Black diaspora. Using archival footage of West African dance, expert opinion from dancing and gender studies professors, and the active participation of partygoers in a dance experiment, Watkins will paint the picture of the defiance, autonomy, and ancestral veneration intrinsic to these traditional movement styles.
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Quadrelle Harris self
Nyla Murray self
Queen Nzinga self
Maria E. Rivera self
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