Moko jumbies, elegant, ethereal stilt walkers drawn from West African traditions, are said to straddle the divide between heaven and earth because of their towering height. These captivating ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Though they’re young in age, when you see 12-year-old Tanjia George and her 5-year-old sister Micah, they’re grand in size. The two recently performed as stilt-walking Moko Jumbies at the St. Croix ...

In South Florida, there is an ancient Caribbean art form that still stands tall. Stilt walking, known as "Moko Jumbie" in parts of the Caribbean, has been associated with Caribbean Carnivals for over ...

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 ...

One account claims the Moko Jumbie is the spirit of Moko, a deity of retribution that has endured incredible mistreatment, yet remained “ tall, tall, tall.” When asked where he came from, the Moko ...