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18:30 Doors 19:00 Intro 19:30 Bubbling Baby (2025)
This evening Caribbean Creativity, in collaboration with Africadelic, presents a special screening of Bubbling Baby in our Cinema! Bubbling Baby is a new short documentary by Sharine Rijsenburg that explores the origins, evolution and significance of bubbling, the high-energy music and dance genre born from Caribbean-Dutch communities in the 1980s, blending dancehall, reggae, and electronic beats. With an introduction, performance and aftertalk!
Bubbling Baby (2025, 19') is a short documentary by Sharine Rijsenburg exploring the rich history and cultural significance of bubbling music, a genre that originated in the 1980s within Caribbean-Dutch communities, particularly among Surinamese and Antillean youth in Rotterdam, The Hague, and Amsterdam. DJ Moortje, a Dutch-Caribbean DJ of Curaçaoan descent, is often credited as the pioneer of bubbling. In 1986, he accidentally played a dancehall record at an accelerated tempo in a Rotterdam club. Instead of stopping the track, the crowd responded enthusiastically, dancing in a new, quick, jerking style that became associated with bubbling.
The high-energy sound was soon embraced by other DJs, who developed the style, blending dancehall, reggae, and Surinamese and Antillean rhythms. Making the sound even more unique, DJs started remixing Jamaican dancehall with electronic beats. More than just a music genre, bubbling evolved into a dance movement, resembling dancehall but faster and more expressive. Above all, bubbling became a way for Surinamese- and Caribbean-Dutch youth in the Netherlands to express their cultural identity in a new social environment. Bubbling Baby delves into the genre's roots and its evolution into a vibrant club music and dance movement.
The film premiered at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) last February.
Melkweg often hosts different types of programmes at the same time, such as concerts, club nights and films. Please note that there may occasionally be some noise pollution from other programmes during the screening.
