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Return of the Larry Hoey Memorial Folk Dance Olympics (Saturday
Night - approx. 10:00pm) This is an opportunity for you and your cohorts to be highly creative and innovative and to strut your stuff Saturday nite at the “Folk Dance Olympics”. This is a friendly and fun “competition” where everyone tries in vain to defeat the perennial winners. The Folk Dance Olympics started as an impromptu activity in about 1999 when (sometime after midnight) Larry Hoey and Paul Collins started doing some challenging dances that had not been done for a while. Other challengers emerged from the crowd and challengers did their thing but could not seem to top the endless stream of dances that Larry and Paul kept coming up with. This activity became a legendary late nite tradition of the Festival as year after year, groups of dancers continued to challenge the perinnial winners. Generally, there have been three different approaches to Olympic skits: (1) groups have prepared and practiced skits at home prior to the festival; (2) groups have developed/rehearsed skits on site at the festival; and (3) some skits have been totally impromptu and developed either a few hours earlier or on-the-spot. For the last three years of Online Festivals, we've missed the Olympics, so we'd like to ease back into the tradition with a slightly different twist. On Saturday night, there will be a 40-minute break in Orkestar Izvor's live music dance program around 10:00pm. We know of one or two groups or people who may have concepts for skits so we'll invite those folks to work on skits and present them this year. If there are any other individuals or groups willing and able to put together a skit, that would be great. However, we have many years of videos of Olympic skits that many of you may not have seen before. So our revival of the Olympic program for this year might be to have the one or two live skits, followed by a presentation of selected videos of Olympic skits from previous years.
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