Making Mas: TruDynasty Carnival Takes Josephine Baker to the Caribbean Carnival

Jacqueline Taucar, in conversation with Thea and Dario Jackson, investigates the sculptural qualities of the Josephine Baker Mas for the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Festival in 2011. This article traces the conception, construction, and complexities of choreography for this carnivalesque reimagining of Baker in Paris of the twenties for a contemporary Canadian ambulant expression. This Queen Mas talks back to the objectification by Parisians and embodying Queen Mas as an instance of female empowerment

Negotiating Performance : Gender, Sexuality, & Theatricality in Latin/o America

Instrumental composition for the Southern Cross Soloists (oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, piano) in response to a poem by Sam Wagan Watson of the same title. The work is part of a collection composed by 23 Queensland composers in response to poems from Watson's collection "Smoke Encrypted Whispers"