Kayla Naomi Watkins
Director
Bumpa (2025)
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.
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.dance, tmdb.dancer, tmdb.sexuality, tmdb.autonomy, tmdb.gender, tmdb.sensuality, tmdb.exploring-sexuality + 22 more, tmdb.female-sexuality, tmdb.west-african, tmdb.west-africa, tmdb.twerking, tmdb.whining, tmdb.defiance, tmdb.black-community, tmdb.social-experiment, tmdb.ancestral, tmdb.cultures-of-west-africa, tmdb.whiteness, tmdb.safe-spaces, tmdb.black-women, tmdb.suppression-of-sexual-expression, tmdb.femme, tmdb.archival-footage, tmdb.caribbean-studies-and-caribbean-disapora, tmdb.afro-caribbean, tmdb.respectability-politics, tmdb.hypersexualization, tmdb.desexualization, tmdb.bodily-autonomy
Country: United States
Languages:
English
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90 min
Aug. 22, 2025
Released
NR