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Dancing in the J'Ouvert space
“Every year I play a ballerina at J’Ouvert,” says Makeda Thomas, a 36-year-old internationally honoured dancer and choreographer, and director and curator of the Dance and Performance Institute that...
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Revising a tradition
From now until Carnival, Barbados-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido will write a series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance. The...
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Minsh stirs the pot again
From now until Carnival, Barbadian-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido will write a series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance....
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New, tradition-based mas claims its space
“Bringing out a band two weeks before Carnival? Boy, that is a Minshall mas.” The incredulous assertion of a visitor to 33 Murray Street echoes across a quiet evening in Woodbrook. This is the mas camp...
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A lifetime of mas and more
In the front yard of his house in Arima, Narrie Approo prepares for Carnival. Chip-chip shells cluster like butterflies on a low bench. Loops of wire, slung neatly over a hook on a wall, overhang a...
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Miss Miles makes mas on stage again
“The other day, a friend said to me, ‘You know, I never miss mass,’” says the character Gene Miles from the stage of the Little Carib Theatre, adopting the slightly haughty tone of well-intended piety....
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Minsh meditates on mas, Miss Miles
There was a time when designer and masman Peter Minshall had only two dogs: Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Norman Manley. But he encouraged them to enjoy themselves, and “they enjoyed themselves all over...
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Everything is practice
Over the past two months, Barbados-born, New Jersey-resident writer Austin Fido has written a series of articles attempting to get behind the mas—from concept to design to production and performance....
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The shady side of paradise
Aleem Marcus Valentine is used to being seen. He is tall, with the face and physique of a model. He is a model, part-time, when he isn’t working at his chosen career as a chef. The modelling goes back...
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