Taipei’s annual Dream Parade—a cacophonous riot of color honoring Taiwan’s aboriginal villagers (and funded by a local property magnate)—has been likened to Rio’s Carnivàle and the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mark Daffey dives in.
The woman with the dazzling smile stands out among her peers. Unlike the milky-skinned locals all dancing to the hypnotic beat of a thousand samba drums, she looks Latino, and is costumed in high heels, a bikini embroidered with beads and sequins, and more than enough feathers to lift her skywards should an unexpected breeze waft through.
Crammed onto the street around her are a bevy of costumed dancers of all ages and genders. A mermaid in head-to-toe pink smiles and waves to the crowd of onlookers from her protective cocoon—an oversized papier–mâché seashell.
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