SIVO International Dance Festival
Odoorn, The Nederlands
August 1 - August 5, 2007

Groups are expected to arrive on yuesday before and leave on monday after the festival. 18 - 20 foreign groups ( 600 guests) and 4 Dutch groups can participate. 

The guests stay with host-families in Odoorn and surrounding villages. It is a festival in the open air; groups dance on six stages situated in the 'dance area' (parcours).

Program: There are six dance rounds in which all the groups perform. There are extra performances in the 'Gala's' and the 'Last rounds'. The festival is opened and closed by a swinging parade of all the participating groups.

On average some 35,000 people come to watch the different shows of the groups. In the weekend there is an international folkloristic market in which the foreign groups and Dutch hobbyists can participate. During the festival the members of the groups have every chance to meet each other. In the 'Ball of the Nations' they have a very special chance to do so. SIVO can organize the yearly festival due to the dedication and enthousiasm of hundreds of host families and hundreds of workers, all volunteers.

The festival is a marvellous big event for the members of the participating groups who can make music, sing and dance to their hearts' content and for the audience who can enjoy this. In an atmosphere of peace of friendship they have every chance to achieve the IOV-motto: "We build bridges from nation to nation, from man to man". SIVO is a member of the International Organization of Folk Arts, settled in Mödling, Austria.

Contact Information:

web: www.sivo.nl

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