Dance in Film · 2021
Up (2021)
Sean Bankhead builds Cardi B's chorus into a repeatable face-trace, dip, and hip-pop hook inside Tanu Muino's high-fashion tableaux, a compact music-video phrase that escaped the set as the #UpChallenge.
Up is a 2021 dance film centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style 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 official video on Cardi B's YouTube channel and current U.S. Apple Music video listing; verified 2026-08-09. Availability may change.
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Powder-blue workout choreography
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Cardi B; ensemble dancers · Choreography Sean Bankhead
Cardi and the ensemble hit full choreography in the 1980s-workout set, led by the powder-blue cone-bra look and the viral Bookie bookie boo and Lean movement cues.
Bankhead's sharp up-down accents and signature lean turn a stylized workout set into a compact commercial-dance showcase engineered for immediate visual recall and audience replication.
Watch this sequence · The full film is on YouTube; the link opens at this sequence. PAPER identifies the 1980s-style workout set as a full-choreography passage; the Los Angeles Times attributes Up to Sean Bankhead and documents the viral Bookie bookie boo and Lean cues. No timestamp or individual backup-dancer identities were inferred.
RIP 2020 graveyard formation
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Cardi B; ensemble dancers · Choreography Sean Bankhead
Cardi dances in a cheerleader-like formation above the RIP 2020 graveyard set, shifting the opening's mourning pose into an ensemble chorus.
The tight ensemble formation translates the chorus into an accessible, camera-facing hook while Cardi's aggressive attack turns a memorial tableau into a declaration of forward motion.
Watch this sequence · The full film is on YouTube; the link opens at this sequence. Pitchfork explicitly identifies the graveyard opening and cheerleader-like formation; the official Cardi B upload provides the complete 2021 video. No timestamp was asserted because the published scene source does not provide an edition-specific timecode.
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