Dance in Film · 2021
Wild Side (2021)
Sean Bankhead and Normani make screen mechanics inseparable from choreography: a wire-driven floor glide and a precisely composited self-duet turn commercial movement into camera-native illusion.
Wild Side 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: Official video on Normani's VEVO YouTube channel and director Tanu Muino's Vimeo page; verified 2026-08-09. Availability may change.
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The dance sequences in Wild Side
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Boys' section: leather splits
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Normani · Choreography Sean Bankhead
Normani's leather-clad splits in the boys' section, staged at a high-school location.
Full-out splits and grounded group choreography in restrictive leather make the movement's difficulty visible while preserving fashion-led music-video polish.
Watch this sequence · The full film is on YouTube; the link opens at this sequence. Official Normani full-video upload opened 2026-08-15 through Sony Music's WATCH link. No edition-specific scene boundary is asserted, so the timestamp is blank.
Mirror-madness doppelgänger duet
Contemporary danceDanced by Normani; Joya Jackson · Choreography Sean Bankhead; Mackenzie Dustman (scene collaborator)
Normani and Joya Jackson twist together as a perfectly mirrored pair, with the edit hiding most of Jackson's face to sustain the double illusion.
The interlocking duet was filmed in opposing passes so Normani appears to dance with herself; learning both sides makes the composited mirror effect depend on exact partnering and reversal.
Watch this sequence · The full film is on YouTube; the link opens at this sequence. Dazed identifies the scene's style as contemporary dance in plain language; the supplied taxonomy has no generic Contemporary dance key, so style_dance_id is intentionally blank and style_not_in_taxonomy is true. No timestamp is asserted.
Wire-assisted floor glide and jump counterpoint
Commercial / Industry DanceDanced by Normani; three unnamed male dancers · Choreography Sean Bankhead
The apparently impossible floor glide: Normani slithers on her knees and hands as dancers vault through the frame.
A harness pulls a kneeling Normani across the floor while three dancers move and jump over her, turning stunt mechanics into a clean low-level choreographic illusion.
Watch this sequence · The full film is on YouTube; the link opens at this sequence. Pitchfork's interview with Sean Bankhead documents the rehearsal experiment, three male dancers, harness, wire, and miniskirt constraint. No edition-specific timestamp is asserted.
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