I have attended some elaborate "Don Giovanni" productions.
Mr. Clark's sexually precious subjects strip for the camera; Mr. Weinberger's don elaborate, armorlike, hand-customized outfits as binding as straightjackets.
It revolves around parades, traditionally on Mardi Gras (in February or March) and on the Sunday closest to St Joseph's day (in March), in which black New Orleanians don elaborate suits of feathers, beads, sequins and costume jewels to sing, dance and chant.
Well, I know what I'll be wearing for my next driver's license picture: I, and all newly apprised religious clergy, shall don elaborate miters, yarmulkes, turbans, and whatever else we can imaginatively connect to our sundry religions.
Even after overcoming this debility, he insisted upon "shielding" himself from the audience by retreating further into character roles, donning elaborate makeups, and adopting thick foreign accents as a form of self-protection.
Nearly 500 canines and their owners donned elaborate costumes Saturday for the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade.
It's expansive enough that we can each have our own experience, be that focusing on the vibrant sound camps, donning elaborate costumes and partying wildly, or... more modestly taking it all in, focusing on art, relaxing in Center Camp and meeting people from all over the world".
On that memorable day, Birendra donned the elaborate crown that came with the title.
At the studio Numata made himself up, and donned an elaborate costume, then slipped the contents of the box, a huge flowerpot, around his waist.
And the idea that "Holy Motors" conveys, of an actor who is himself radically transformed by his roles, is exactly what Lavant himself experienced as he donned his elaborate makeup and costumes for those roles: In the process of seeing myself transform myself … I used those moments to examine myself and to see, in the course of the process, how that reverberated onto me.
For example, the donning of elaborate wooden masks during the pre-Lenten celebrations in the southwest remains unchanged despite being televised; hundreds of smaller towns and larger villages in the south still commemorate an anniversary from the Thirty Years' War with a parade in 17th-century costume or, in Roman Catholic areas, march in full procession on Corpus Christi Day.
