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KANAVAL by Leah Gordon

KANAVAL by Leah Gordon

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Leah Gordon54199560Rolleicord2010 40Before Carnival, you never sleep, always dreaming of bringing pleasure, innovation and creation. Fanel Saint-Helere & Frantz Denoujou (Flanbo Mardi Gras troupe)Leagues away...

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Leah Gordon54

199560Rolleicord

2010

40

Before Carnival, you never sleep, always dreaming of bringing pleasure, innovation and creation.
Fanel Saint-Helere & Frantz Denoujou (Flanbo Mardi Gras troupe)

Leagues away from the sequinned, sanitised, corporate-sponsored carnivals found elsewhere in the Americas, the Madigra troupes of the Haitian port town of Jacmel enact and subvert myth, legends and the nations own histories, their improvisational costumes and surreal narratives a Vodou-charged blend of folk memory, political satire and personal revelation.

Here the Zl Maturin, satin-clad devils in papier-mch masks, hinged wooden wings clapping on their backs, do battle against Sen Michl Arkanj and his army of pastors; further on the Chaloska in their cows-tooth-adorned masks transform the feared early twentieth-century police chief Charles Oscar tienne into a metaphor for th

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