New Erika Lust Featurette 'Twerk' to Bow on XConfessions

BARCELONA—Acclaimed director Erika Lust pays homage to the female rear with her newest featurette, "Twerk," releasing Thursday on XConfessions.com.  AVN Award-nominated European performers Anastasia Brokelyn and Tommy Cabrio star in the piece, alongside dancers Ana Chinchilla, Sara Suárez aka Agave Babe, Inés-Sybille Vooduness and Mar Jiggle.it. Describes a company synopsis, "A regular rehearsal day becomes an explosion of pelvic liberation, booty shaking and energetic dance. As the music penetrates further into their bones, we enter the imagination of one of the dancers (Anastasia Brokelyn) as she lets go of all taboos and opens herself up to the pleasure of female anal sex." Promo materials go on to note, "With 'Twerk,' Erika Lust wanted to explore the pleasure women feel with anal sex beyond the limitations and taboos of heteronormativity. Women dancing and bouncing their booties doesn't mean they are asking to be touched; 'Twerk' celebrates twerking as self-enjoyment, as it taps the benefits of a natural pelvis movement that has become hypersexualized by the objectifying male gaze." Commented Lust, "I always love finding stories where dance and sex come together, and in this film, we went a bit further. I experienced the dance myself in a previous workshop with Anchi and my team. This made the magic for me to let the story flow as freely as my pelvis felt before shooting. I learned so much about the process and what it really means to connect with the body in order to truly enjoy pleasure." The term "twerk," according to the promo materials, "originated among cis and trans Black females in New Orleans in the mid-'90s" and "refers to the abilitity to 'work that body,' reflecting a global articulation found across generations of African American communities and musical scenes, often used to identify the aesthetic labor and sophisticated social creativity behind the legacy of musical Blackness embodied across generations of Black youth." See a trailer for "Twerk" here.