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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) A young woman ...

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 ...

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 ...