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Students would pay no fee if they came in the nude, half price for wearing a lascivious costume, and full price for remaining in "street clothes". It was held irregularly between 1970 and 1984 and was cancelled by school president Hanna Holborn Gray after that year's ball sent numerous students to the emergency room and provoked negative ...
A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is a special kind of formal ball which many participants attend in costume wearing masks. (Compare the word "masque"—a formal written and sung court pageant.) Less formal "costume parties" may be a descendant of this tradition. A masquerade ball usually encompasses music and dancing.
While the tradition began as a male right of passage, as were the masquerade traditions in West and Central Africa, [150] today many Black women partake in this tradition as well. [79]: 1960, 2005 Cherice Harrison-Nelson says partaking in the Mardi Gras Indian tradition was a spiritual and personal choice. Five generations of her family have ...
The masquerade is an enduring tradition of the Mardi Gras festivities as an opportunity for people to shed their inhibitions and fully imbibe in the party-spirit. A New Orleans city ordinance ...
A masquerade ceremony (or masked rite, festival, procession or dance) is a cultural or religious event involving the wearing of masks. The practice has been seen throughout history from the prehistoric era to present day. They have a variety of themes. Their meanings can range from anything including life, death, and fertility.
Masquerade ball, a costumed dance event Masquerade ceremony , a rite or cultural event in many parts of the world, especially the Caribbean and Africa Masquerade society , a fictional society in Vampire: The Masquerade
The tradition began in 1992.This video taken by Kevin Glueck, who said he filmed it on November 20, shows the Holiday Train pulling up to the Belmont station in the Lakeview area of Chicago ...
Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the plumed helmet, the "heroic torso" in armour and other conventions were still employed for opera seria in the 18th century.. The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the ...