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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of East Flatbush dancers are preparing to take to the West Indian American Carnival on stilts. The Caribbean art of stilt dancing is called moko jumbie. The East Flatbush group, known as ...

There’s a new generation of Brooklyn kids learning to become Moko Jumbies - stilt dancers that you see at celebrations all across the Caribbean. Jason Edwards, an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, ...

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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 ...

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 ...