PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Shynel Brizan remembers her first Kings and Queens of Carnival competition like it was yesterday. It was 2012. She was 19 years old and still relatively new to the moko ...

New York-based photographer Stefan Falke began working on his long-term documentary project about a stilt-walking school in Trinidad in the late' 90s. The main purpose of the Keylemanjahro School of ...

The great poet and novelist Wilson Harris died exactly one year ago. Or did he? Like one of his characters, Harris has come back. He has returned in the form of a band of moko jumbies — a motley crew ...

new video loaded: Dancing In the Air With 9-Foot Stilts transcript In Trinidad, a group called “Touch D Sky” dances on stilts almost everyday to practice the art of Moko Jumbie. Moko Jumbie came from ...

Towering beings wander the streets of Trinidad and Tobago. Their fierce gold, red, and blue costumes create a kaleidoscopic show like no other. On the ground, Maria Nunes gets her camera ready. The ...

Allenton Riley stands tall as he roams his Capitol Heights neighborhood. It's hard to overlook a dancing teenager 12 feet tall. Stilts double the 6-foot Riley's height as he practices in a T-shirt and ...

The group Lee Poy is heading is performing the Afro-Caribbean art form known as moko jumbie, or stilt walking. It is more than just colorful entertainment. "Moko" means healer in Central Africa and ...

Trinidad and Tobago is a land of heights — literally and figuratively. Its moko jumbies, those mystical stilt-walking characters rooted in West African tradition, are a fixture of the country's annual ...

When he speaks of his home country, Carlos’ big, mahogany eyes well up. “It is too beautiful,” he says, “Venezuela has a variety of everything.” The 13-year-old has since moved with his family to ...

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