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KARNAVAL FROM THE INSIDE
DUSHI AVENTURA With the 50th Anniversary of Curacao Karnaval, it is a special time to understand this unique tradition in many ways, and one such way is to take a look from the inside perspective of a Karnaval group. Dushi Aventura, 1st runner up of Group of the Year 2019 and Best Float 2019, is heading into their 10th year of celebrating Karnaval and has a group size of approximately 250 members every year. Lucien Elisa, a founding member, gave us the opportunity for a personal interview. WRITER: NATHASJA JT PLAIZIER
HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? We started in 2011 with a group of friends and what I vividly remember is us sitting at my grandmother’s house talking about Karnaval. Back then we were all in the same group and kept talking about forming our own group until eventually planning every-
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thing. That’s how it started: with family and good friends, it became reality. WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHANGES YOU HAVE NOTICED THROUGH THE YEARS? For us, the biggest changes have been in our costumes, because when we started
we were not very good in making those. We were no experts and didn’t have the experience to design or make costumes. By the second year, we started with a designer who is now a leader. He has designed everything since then, has grown with the group and became a full-blown expert. In 2013, we won
