#sexypink/Carnival 2023

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SEXYPINK - Tracey Sankar Charleau gives her first salvo for Jouvert 2023. 

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Sexypink - CARNIcycle project that I am all for.

Do you have boxes of old costumes that you can no longer use? ⁠ What about costumes you can't take home after the road? ⁠Well shake off the dust off those boxes, and keep your costume after the Stage,  because you can now recycle them with us Make YOUR green impact today, in a super easy way. 

This carnival, choose to reduce your footprint and recycle your costume with us. You can "Fete Play Mas, Bubble and Wine, and Save the Earth, Same Time.  ⁠Trinidad and Tobago ! Carnicycle will be collecting costumes at the SOCADROME AND SAVANNAH on Carnival Tuesday. 

If you can't stop by there, drop off your costume pieces at the following locations!  Costume pieces will be stripped down, sanitized. The bras will be given to local women's charity, Barters for Babies. And if you are an upcoming designer, please lookout for our beads, rhinestones and metal frame give aways for your prototyping needs. ⁠Sustaining our mas, our island and our future starts with you! #EcoMasMovementInitiative by Carnicycle

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Sexypink - A wonderful read and close to my heart because of the character I have played. 

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Sexypink - What a treat

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MAS 2.0 - MASKO - 50/50 - MAS A WOBE - 01.01.2023 (KARATA)

SEXYPINK - Have you ever heard of Karata? Guadeloupeans bring in the new year with this special celebration.

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Sexypink - Carnival in Martinique 2023 - Mardi Gras de Fort-De-France which kicked off yesterday, Feb 21, 2023. (Courtesy CLICK Island)

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Sexypink - Carnival in Basse Terre Guadeloupe - Mardi Gras de Fort-De-France which kicked off yesterday, Feb 21, 2023. 

Photography- Antoine Photo Bliss and others 

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Sexypink - Rubadiri Victor took some stellar images of the Kings and Queens of Carnival Preliminaries. This gentleman got into the right spirit of the Dame Lorraine Traditional Mas.

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Sexypink - Rubadiri Victor captured some excellent behind the scenes images of The Making Of Carnival KINGS & QUEENS. I think that there is a picture book in the making here.

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Sexypink - Makeda Thomas

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PERFORMING TODAY in Chicago! “Is/Not Mas” is an invitation to engage the serious work of play that is at the center of mas and Carnival performance. Archival audio and video, fractal algorithms, sound, and movement collect to experiment with a possibility of performance rooted in and that invokes aesthetics of mas and Carnival, but is yet something else altogether. Kalinda, kinetics, Traditional mas, and Jouvay are called on to gesture towards what we mean when we say, “Mas!

Ah know yuh!”via

Performance Studies at Northwestern University

: Introducing the Graduate Student Spotlight Series, in this series we will be sharing more about the graduate student community that make up Northwestern’s Department of Performance Studies, as well as their work and practice. Ahead of the graduate performances, a key milestone for our graduate students, we will be kicking off the series with our first-year PhD students. Makeda Thomas (she/her) 

Makeda Thomas‘ artistic practice, scholarship and teaching situate at the intersection of dance studies, diaspora theory, and Black feminisms. She is Founding Director of the Trinidad-based Dance & Performance Institute, which has created multiple spaces of intellectual and imaginative inquiry for hundreds of artists, scholars, teachers, and students of the Caribbean and its Diasporas. The Institute spearheads the Artist in Residence Program, New Waves! Institute, and Carnival Performance Institute - programs which have been engaged in Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti, and New York. A 2013 Creative Capital Awardee, her choreography has been presented internationally including at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Live Arts, HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Seattle’s Broadway Performance Hall, Maputo’s Teatro Africa, Port of Spain’s Caribbean Contemporary Arts and Queen’s Hall, The National Gallery of Art and 7 Arts Centre in Zimbabwe, Teatro de la Ciudad in Mexico, and in the context of Carnival. · 

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Renella’s embodiment of Kali is an expression of remembering and devotion taken outside of temple worship

Global Voices article by Dr. Gabrielle Hosein on the Kali JabJab Performance of Renella Alfred

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Sexypink - From the Facebook page of Colin Gill. Fibreglass, wire, bamboo and pure unadulterated passion.

Stage costume photographed by Anthony Keung Fatt 

From the Facebook page of Antourage Production

KING :     JOSEPH  LEWISPORTRAYAL:   UDEVELI OLUHLAZA - THE HAUNTED JAB OF CANBOULAYCATEGORY:     FANTASYBAND:     ANTOURAGE PRODUCTIONSDESIGNER:     VARMA LEO LAKHANBAND LEADER:     SHELDON LEWISBUILT BY : COLIN GILL, SHELDON LEWIS, JOSEPH LEWIS, LEO LAKHAN AIR BRUSHED BY: RONALD RAMDINBorn from the tears of slavery, from eyes reddened and ready to seek revenge, he appears - summoned by the cries and rhythm of a nation. Seeking justice and payment for the enslavement of his people, he charges forth with a rage like the flames of cannes brulee. Although the haunted Jab is feared by many, he is most certainly and rightfully respected from all. The drums start to beat, the horn start to… It is time to celebrate freedom. Our freedom! The freedom of the people in Trinidad and Tobago. The spirit of the Jab is all around us. Give your dues to the devil or suffer his wrath for there is no other way to quell his vengeance. "Pay the devil JAB JAB" ... or pray he has mercy on your soul.This magnificent Creation was designed by Varma Leo Lakhan and Built by Colin Gill, Sheldon Lewis and Varma Lakhan. Colors used are Blue, Red and Gold.  Carried on three wheels, the costume stands at a height of 35ft, width of  30ft and a length of 20ftq. Materials used on this Dynamic Costume are fiber glass, aluminum rods, cane, wire, sequins, fabric, foam, metallic foil and plastic Molding. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Joseph Lewis back to defend his title as the King of Carnival with his portrayal of "Udeveli Oluhlaza" - the Haunted Jab of Canboula

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UGvw9M2CY04

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Sexypink - From Crick Crack Traditional and Folklore Mas Band

From generation to generation....16 year old Jude Charleau portraying the Dame Lorraine "Madame Bosee, the Old Woman and the Shoe" today at the savannah for Junior Individuals, Boys 11-17. His mother Tracey Sankar-Charleau and her sister Nadia Sankar played this Mas with their mother June Sankar.  Tracey's daughter Nathaniel and another of her sons Joshua have also played this Mas. Jude made the amazing shoe that you see on his back. Stunning details. While the Dame Lorraine is played extensively by women today, it is a mas originally played by men.  Jude made his own costume and the attention to detail was striking. What you can't see in this photo is that he had an exquisite shoe on his back. Will share a view of that in another post.

"At the start of the 19th century, Trinidad’s upper-class ladies dressed for masquerade balls in voluminous flowing gowns. Decked with exquisite jewellery, they danced elegantly through the night — observed through the windows by their slaves and servants. Naturally, these aristocratic ladies and their refined airs were prime targets for mockery when the freed slaves held their own Carnival celebrations, and thus evolved the burlesque character of the Dame Lorraine.Copying the ladies’ fine gowns with whatever materials they could find — assorted rags, makeshift fans and hats, shiny objects imitating jewels — the masqueraders mocked the pretensions of respectable society.  Over time, the Dame Lorraine mas became more elaborate. Heavily padded breasts and posterior reinforced the parody, and a large “pregnant” belly hinted at less than immaculate morals. Fine wire mesh masks, with eyes and mouth painted in, lent the masquerader the safety of anonymity. 

In Port of Spain’s backyards, the Dame Lorraine evolved into a theatrical event, enacted at midnight on Carnival Sunday for an eager audience. Imitating the stately scenes at the old plantation balls, a “butler” introduced arriving couples, who then performed exaggerated versions of formal dances, accompanied by small cuatro bands....Beneath the masks were cross-dressing men, many of whom happened to be the descendants of the very French planters they were mocking." 

Photos by Maria Nunes. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2023.

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Sexypink - Tessa Alexander Sloane - Seale -  Dame Returns I and II. 

Living Ritual series 2023. This and other works now available on my website https://www.tessaalexanderart.com/living-ritual

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Sexypink - Look out for traditional mas at its best.

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VIM à Pointe-à-Pitre - 01.01.2023 (KARATA)

Sexypink - Guadeloupe celebrates 2023.