It's a particularly festive presentation and something a little outside of the usual shortcake box.
The festive presentation features a variety of traditional music and dance forms, including the salsa, merengue, mambo and cha-cha.
This festive presentation did not mask, however, the turmoil caused by a design chosen single-handedly without prior popular consultation, and that represented more of a political regime than a whole nation.
The opening ensemble number, Antonio Hidalgo's "Mujeres," was flamenco tapas: small plates of fans, shawls, castanets, long-trained dresses, each variety sampled in a friendly, festive, handsome and generic presentation.
Wrap with a festive ribbon and present.
The context is festive, but the message — and the presentation — are bleak.
Its foreign associations put it in the same exalted league of dinner party fare as, say, chicken Kiev, but its flavors were more nuanced and its presentation was far more festive.
Its next presentation is "Baroque Collection," a festive program of sonatas and concertos by Bach, Heinchen, Zelenka, and Vivaldi ("La Pastorella"); the musicians include the violinist Ani Kavafian and the oboist James Austin Smith.
A scattering of iridescent eggs called tobiko, which come in red, black, orange, yellow and green, make pretty presentations of sushi and sashimi even more festive.
(Since Bake Off everything has to stop shows, have you noticed?) They gather festive alpine fauna – holly, eucalyptus, light spruce – and stick it into a flower presentation block.
It was an interfaith and intergenerational event that included ritual foods and a light festive meal, wine and water, musical selections and performances, candle lighting and participatory readings, poetry and power point presentations, singing and dancing.
