Tall Tales: New Book Shows Off Mexican Artist's Work With Stilt Dancers Samantha Lim - Brooklyn Daily
go to original May 21, 2013

This video provides a glimpse into the collaboration between Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata and the Brooklyn Jumbies, a group of stilt dancers whose traditions stem from West Africa and the West Indies. (Alix Milne)

Transcommunality: Interventions and Collaborations in Stilt Dancing Communities by Lauren Anderson Barbata Check it out on Amazon.com

Lauren Anderson Barbata has friends in high places. The Mexican artist has spent a decade making films, creating costumes, and even running errands on the low ground - ensuring everyone’s got their emergency kits - for towering stilt dancers known as “moko jumbies” in Brooklyn and abroad.

Dancers of moko jumbie, which is emblematic of African-Carribean culture, perform on stilts as high as 15 feet.

“I serve as a link between the earth and the sky,” said Barbata, whose monographic book “Transcommunality: Interventions and Collaborations in Stilt Dancing Communities” is launching this month.

... Barbata, who shuffles back and forth between New York and Mexico, soon began collaborating with moko jumbies based in Brooklyn and Oaxaca, Mexico, to give them same kind of media exposure she gave the kids in southern Caribbean.

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