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Ivy Baxter

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Pioneering Jamaican dancer and choreographer whose Ivy Baxter Creative Dance Group, from around 1950, was the first to build concert work on Jamaican folk movement, laying the ground for the NDTC generation.

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Confidence: Well supported
Era: Open era →

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Story · Well supportedThe stage that kept the folk forms

How Jamaica built companies and schools to hold Kumina, Jonkonnu - and eventually dancehall.