If Machel is the foremost innovator of soca, Minshall is the foremost innovator of mas. Eccentric and chameleon-like, his designs have captured Trinidadian’s imaginations for several decades. Born in Guyana, his family moved to Trinidad when he was 4 and we consider him a ‘true son of the soil’.
From his official website:
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Minshall was born in Georgetown, Guyana, but moved to Trinidad as a child after his father took a job as a cartoonist. Growing up in the capital, Port of Spain, he was exposed to Carnival from a young age. He made his first costume at the age of thirteen, entering the children’s Carnival competition as an African witch doctor, and winning a prize for originality. He attended Queen’s Royal College, then went on to study Theatre Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London.
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Minshall’s costumes have sometimes been called “dancing mobiles.” “Mas” as he conceives it is performance art that combines the qualities of sculpture with those of movement. Each costume is designed with the motion of the performer in mind, so that performer and costume are one. “I provide the means for the human body to express its energy,” he says. His bands are never merely costumed parades, but exercises in total theatre, using music, drama, dance, and visual spectacle to communicate a metaphor-rich narrative.
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Minshall claims that mas–”living art that we make fresh every year”–is the truest artistic expression of Trinidad. “Our aesthetic is performance, the living now.” A major aim of his life’s work has been to prove that mas can be “high” art, as capable of the sublime or the universal as any other artform.
SIGHTS:
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SOUNDS:
Costume Design by Peter Minshall
TASTES:
Callaloo
Callaloo, is the name of Peter Minshall’s design company. It is also the name of a well-known local dish, one that is considered by some to be our national one.
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I don’t eat callaloo
why?
Some Minshall woulda be good for the opening for CWC last night!
CWC??!! what’s that?
I’ve been out of it so be kind 
Cricket World Cup! tsk tsk
oh hor! of course
never mind me 
lolz
Some Minshall woulda be good for the opening for CWC last night!
CWC??!! what’s that?
I’ve been out of it so be kind 
Cricket World Cup! tsk tsk
oh hor! of course
never mind me 
lolz
Sarina, that looks like hummus ya ? So, care to share your secret recipe ? *wink*
Sarina, that looks like hummus ya ? So, care to share your secret recipe ? *wink*
it’s more like a spinach sauce/soup? I’ll be sharing the recipe!
Sarina, that looks like hummus ya ? So, care to share your secret recipe ? *wink*
it’s more like a spinach sauce/soup? I’ll be sharing the recipe!
Your alignment is off, the center part is pushed down to the bottom…please check.
nothing has changed on my side, can’t reproduce sorry …
I have noticed some browsers on some computers cause this to happen where there are more than 2 frames, but not all of them.
strange…
Your alignment is off, the center part is pushed down to the bottom…please check.
Your alignment is off, the center part is pushed down to the bottom…please check.
nothing has changed on my side, can’t reproduce sorry …
I have noticed some browsers on some computers cause this to happen where there are more than 2 frames, but not all of them.
strange…
why?