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The language is visual, percussively driven, and at any given moment, the overall wallop of the experience is as primary as heated dance. The configuration of images vibrates and dangles. All around, banners and sets and props are paraded. The action flows through the crush of the crowd. The music is ceaseless, and the atmosphere seems to rise up and swallow the very height of the buildings on Toronto’s University Avenue. Even though you know most of those dancing around you, it is almost impossible to recognize them individually, their faces masked, their costumes animated. Yet no matter how exaggerated things get, no matter how intense the colour or out-of-scale the size, the images remain linked to you in gestures of mortality and in the heartbeats of revelry. Large puppets dance above you, and the summer sky frees your heart from all worry. You are celebrating. You are part of the message. You are in the midst of Toronto’s annual Caribana parade. You are a dancing character, thematically costumed by Shadowland.
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