The Friday presentation also included remarks from fan club president Sal Piro and a costumed performance of the "Time Warp" by Sins O'The Flesh, which performs weekly at the NuArt Theatre.
The event was attended by 250 guests and a dozen costumed performance artists.
Following the format of this year's festival, Baker explains and demonstrates before giving a full lights-and-costumes performance.
The 16th Annual DC Summer Masquerade Ball At Warehouse Loft Costumes, performance art troupes, steampunk, DJs, body paint, masks and more.
The members, who produce sculptures, films, posters, costumed performances and music, have exotic names.
Forcefield, an artist collective based in Providence, R.I., produces sculptures, films, posters, costumed performances and music.
The bowling leagues and building fires and Easter Sunday births and the costumed performances by Mary Ann Hatley's Dance School.
But even when the film looks directionless, what's incredible is how the director suffuses everything - costumes, performances, blade-flashing editing and hallucinatory sound design - with something compelling.
Ethnicity as a performance is at its most theatrical in Irvin Morazán's fantastically costumed performances, in which he wears towering masklike headdresses that mix references to pre-Columbian and contemporary hip-hop cultures.
By 2011, the twins had begun releasing limited batches of records on the small label Burger, and they were soon embraced as muses by fashion houses; designers fell for their flowing thrift-store style and costumed performances.
