Dance in Film · 2021
Industry Baby (2021)
Sean Bankhead gives Lil Nas X and a male ensemble two sharply staged set pieces: a gleefully explicit shower-room twerk routine and a triumphant prison-yard chorus, turning synchronized commercial choreography into the video's jailbreak engine.
Industry Baby is a 2021 dance film centred on Modern Fusion & Commercial, Heels & Sensual Performance. For dancers, it's a chance to see these styles performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Where to watch: Full 3:56 official video on Lil Nas X's YouTube channel and current U.S. Apple Music video listing; verified 2026-08-09. Availability may change.
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Floodlit prison-yard chorus
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Lil Nas X; prisoner ensemble · Choreography Sean Bankhead
Lil Nas X at the center of a hot-pink ensemble as spotlights sweep the prison yard.
Front-facing ensemble formations and chorus-sized unison give the sequence the directness of peak commercial music-video choreography. Whirling spotlights and hot-pink uniforms amplify each formation change, so the jailbreak resolves not in flight but in a triumphant company number.
Watch this sequence · This sequence is on YouTube as a standalone clip.
Shower-room ensemble routine
TwerkDanced by Lil Nas X; male prisoner ensemble · Choreography Sean Bankhead
Pixelated bodies hitting synchronized accents beneath the prison showers.
Bankhead makes the chorus legible through close-packed unison and unapologetic hip-driven accents, placing twerking at the center of the scene rather than using it as decoration. The ensemble turns a carceral shower into communal queer spectacle, making movement itself the video's act of resistance.
Watch this sequence · This sequence is on YouTube as a standalone clip.
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