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Chicagoan Nick Cave's full-body Soundsuits merged masquerade with wearable sculpture.
The challenge is to distinguish whether the ruse is a matter of concealment, with the predator failing to detect the animal, or a case of "masquerade," with the predator actually detecting the imitator, misidentifying it as something inedible, and then ignoring it.
Among them are Otobo, a violent character whose costume mixes animal and human features and bristles with palm fronds, and "Big Masquerade With Boat and Household on His Head," a cutlass-wielding superman whose head, crowned by colored feather dusters, balances a ship and a house, a comment on Kalabari measurements of wealth.
It was at this point, in the early 1950s, that a Sun Ra "look" for the band started to come into focus: a mystical-historical-comical blend of science fiction, Egyptology, Southern mummery, Freemasonry, nightclub theatrics (costumed acts were big at the time) and African masquerade, with rakishly flipped-brim Robin Hood caps — later beanies with propellers — thrown in.
In March Facebook bought image filtering app Masquerade, with the intention of integrating the latter's face-morphing tech into its messaging platform to inject a little more fun into the online space where kids' parents prefer to hang out.
MR: And then you have what could be a slight nod to one of your own hits, "The Masquerade," with "The Masquerade Is Over," no? LR: Well, not really.
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The youngest person to go masquerading with the band is two, the oldest is 75.
Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell played 80s cold war-era Soviet spies, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, masquerading, with their unwitting children, as an all-American family.
His band of drummers, singers and dancers evoked both the village's music and its masquerades, with outsize figures dancing in elaborate raffia costumes.
Secret is more like going to a masquerade ball with your friends versus being in a completely dark room with a bunch of strangers.
For one thing, the raucous street masquerade, filled with its writhing, unfettered black bodies, doesn't quite fit in with the matcha-sipping, downward-dogging image of gentrified, white Brooklyn that helps sell overpriced real estate.
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