[Data-modeling] Olympics domain for review

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Well, most performances are songs (with the usual mass dancing of  
little kids or adults in crazy outfits). There are mass dance  
performances to music.

Here's a snippet from the LA 1984 Olympics:

"# The opening ceremony featured the arrival of Bill Suitor by means  
of the Bell Aerosystems rocket pack (also known as a Jet Pack).
# Professional wrestler Samoa Joe (then aged 5) appeared at the  
opening ceremony as a dancer."

The much maligned Atlanta 1996 Olympics:

"Songs and themes

The Olympiad's official theme, Summon the Heroes, was written by John  
Williams, making it the third Olympiad for which he has composed. The  
song "The Power of the Dream", composed by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds  
and David Foster, with words by Linda Thompson was performed in the  
opening ceremony by Céline Dion accompanied by Foster and the Atlanta  
Symphony Orchestra and Centennial Choir. Gladys Knight sang "Georgia  
on My Mind", Georgia's official state song, at the opening ceremony.  
The closing ceremony featured Gloria Estefan singing "Reach", the  
official theme song of the 1996 Olympics. At the closing of the  
ceremony Trisha Yearwood performed the Olympics song ["The Flame"]"

"Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic torch during the opening ceremonies of  
the games and received his gold medal from the 1960 Summer Olympics  
(he had thrown his previous one into a river in disgust)."

==

Performance:

-performer

-opening ceremony or closing ceremony

-date

-type of performance (dance, song, solo musical performance, mime,  
flying etc.)

-music


~ Gordon

<<< gordon at metaweb.com >>>



On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

>
> ----- "Kirrily Robert" <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:
>> ----- "Gordon Mackenzie" <gordon at metaweb.com> wrote:
>>> There is 'some' data available for the original Olympic Games of
>>> Ancient Greece...I'd assume it would be a separate domain as the
>>> events/awards are a bit different. Any interest in that as well as
>> our
>>> current Games?
>>
>> Not for now.  Let's confine this to the modern olympics.
>>
>>> Olympic Ceremony stuff: Oly President, Notable Attendees,
>> Performers,
>>> opening/closing, theme, designer, production staff/company)
>>
>> Oooh, that's good and complicated, isn't it?
>
> Can anyone tell me what sort of expected type I shoudl use for the  
> performer at an Olympic opening ceremony?
>
> K.
>
> -- 
> Kirrily Robert
> Freebase Community Director
> kirrily at metaweb.com
>
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