Eurovision Dance Contest 2007

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1st Eurovision Dance Contest
date September 1, 2007
Host country United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
venue London
Moderation Claudia Winkleman & Graham Norton
Pause filler Enrique Iglesias
participating countries 16
winner FinlandFinland Finland with Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen
Withdrawn participants GermanyGermany Germany , Switzerland , SpainSwitzerlandSwitzerland SpainSpain 
Voting rule The viewers decide via televoting (in Greece by jury ) how the country awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and one point to the ten best appearances.
EDC 2008United KingdomUnited Kingdom 

The first edition of the Eurovision Dance Contest took place on September 1, 2007 in London .

Attendees

space Start number country Channel dancer dancer 1. Dance
music selection
(artist / composer)
2. Dance
music selection
(artist / composer)
Points
01. 16 FinlandFinland Finland YLE Katja Koukkula Jussi Väänänen Rumba
All in Love Is Far
( Carmen McRae )
Paso Doble
The Unforgiven
( Apocalyptica )
132
02. 14th UkraineUkraine Ukraine NTU Yulia Okropiridze Illya Sydorenko Quickstep
Istanbul
( Mona Lisa's smile ) / (Swing City Gymph Orchestra)
Showdance
Hop-cja
( Oleh Skrypka )
121
03. 10 IrelandIreland Ireland RTÉ Nicola Byrne Mick Donegan Jive
Why Do Fools Fall in Love
( Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers )
Traditional Irish dance
fandango
095
04th 11 PolandPoland Poland TVP Katarzyna Cichopek Marcin Hakiel Cha-Cha-Cha
Sway
( Michael Bublé )
Rumba / Samba
Private Emotion / She Bangs
( Ricky Martin )
084
05. 05 AustriaAustria Austria ORF Kelly Kainz Andy Kainz Jive
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
(Choir & Stars Orchestra)
Paso Doble
The Black Pearl (from Pirates of the Caribbean )
(Stars Orchestra)
074
13 PortugalPortugal Portugal RTP Sónia Araújo Ricardo Silva Jive
Hanky ​​Panky
(own orchestra / Madonna )
Tango
Libertango
(own orchestra / Astor Piazzolla )
074
07th 02 RussiaRussia Russia RTR Maria Sittel Vladislav Borodinov Rumba
Balcony Scene from Romeo & Juliet OST
(Nellee Hooper)
Paso Doble
Zyganski Tanez
( Andrei Petrow )
072
08th. 06th GermanyGermany Germany ARD /
WDR
Cloud Hegenbarth Oliver Seefeldt Samba
Lady Marmalade - Thunderpuss Radio Mix
( Christina Aguilera , Lil 'Kim , Mýa , Pink )
Exhibition Dancing
Total Eclipse of the Heart / Holding Out for a Hero
( Bonnie Tyler )
059
09. 12 DenmarkDenmark Denmark DR Mette Elkjær David Jørgensen Rumba
Love Fool
( Olivia )
Showdance
Lovestoned / I Think She Knows
( Justin Timberlake )
038
09. 09 SpainSpain Spain TVE Amagoya Benlloch Abraham M. Fernandez Cha-Cha-Cha
Baila Morena
( Zucchero )
Paso Doble
Freestyle Paso Doble
El Gato Montes
038
11. 08th LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania LRT Gabrielë Valiukaitë Gintaras Svistunavicius Paso Doble
Carmen
( Georges Bizet )
Polka
Lithuanian Polka (Linksmoji seklycia)
Cuban Pete ( The Mask Soundtrack)
035
12. 03 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands NPB /
TROS
Alexandra Matteman Redmond Valk Cha-Cha-Cha
Sexbomb
( Tom Jones )
Freestyle
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
( Amy Winehouse )
034
13. 07th GreeceGreece Greece ERT Ourania Kolliou Spyros Pavlidis Jive
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
( Blues Brothers Soundtrack)
Sirtaki
Freestyle Syrtaki
(Zorba the Greek)
031
14th 15th SwedenSweden Sweden TV4 Cecilia Ehrling Martin Lidberg Paso Doble
The Final Countdown
( Europe )
Disco Fusion
Disco Inferno
( The Trammps )
023
15th 04th United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom BBC Camilla Dallerup Brendan Cole Rumba
' ( Barbra Streisand )
Freestyle /
Medley Of: James Bond Theme ( Moby )
Diamonds Are Forever ( Shirley Bassey )
018th
16. 01 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland SRG /
SSR
Denise Biellmann Sven Ninnemann Paso Doble
Malagueña
(Catherine Valente & 101 Strings)
Swing
Feeling Good
( Michael Bublé )
000

National selection process

Denmark

Denmark held a national preliminary round called Dansk Danse Grand Prix on August 24th , in which three professional dance couples took part. These three couples had previously been selected internally by a jury from eight couples from the Danish Dance Sport Association (three Latin couples, three standard couples and 2 mixed couples). The preliminary decision was held on the Town Hall Square in Copenhagen and the winning pair was determined via telephone and SMS voting. The winners also received the maximum number of points from the jury.

Participants were:

  • Mette Skou Elkjær & David Kim Ehlers Jørgensen
  • Lotte Rodenberg & Kristjan Vellejus
  • Maija Salminen & Martin Reichhardt

Germany

The German dance couple was selected on June 30, 2007 as part of the Great Summer Festival of Folk Music . In contrast to other countries, the couples each consisted of a celebrity and a professional dancer. The audience decided by televoting. Participants were:

Since Allan Frank was very limited in time due to his current training as a long-distance pilot, Wolke Hegenbarth took part in the Eurovision Dance Contest with professional dancer Oliver Seefeldt . Both already knew each other from the RTL show Let's Dance ! (1st season) and were runner-up at the time.

Finland

The Finnish preliminary round was held on August 25th, just one week before the final. An attending jury commented on the performances, but did not award any points so that the decision was left to the audience, who voted by SMS and telephone. The show was moderated by Jaana Pelkonen , who hosted the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest from Helsinki and the Finnish preliminary decision.

Participants were (in starting order):

  • Aleksi Seppänen & Elina Katainen
  • Erik & Sanna Hento
  • Sami Vainionpää & Merje Styf
  • Sami Helenius & Jutta Markkanen
  • Mariia & Markus Hirvonen (2nd place with 21% of the votes)
  • Jussi Väänänen & Katja Koukkula (1st place with 27% of the votes)
  • Mikko Kaasalainen & Adrienn Fitori (3rd place with 18% of the votes)
  • Masi Saurén & Bettina Karppinen

Greece

The Greek television broadcaster selected the couple, consisting of Ourania Kalliou and Spyros Pavlidis, internally and announced them in early July.

Ireland

The Irish TV station RTÉ identified the Irish dance couple on May 20 as part of the show Celebrity Jigs and Reels (comparable Irish version of Let's Dance ). Five couples formed from the professional dancers competed against each other and a jury (consisting of Jane Gilheaney, director of the Shaylyn Dance Company in Ballinamore , Co Leitrim, David Bolger, artistic director of the Coiscéim Dance Theater in Dublin and Julian Vignoles) selected the winning couple Nicola Byrne & Mick Donegan .

Participating dance couples were:

  • Susan Ginnety & Ronan McCormack
  • Nicola Byrne & Mick Donegan
  • Colin Ryan & Paula Goulding
  • Damien Noone & Rachel Byrne
  • Glenn Simpson & Dearbhla Lennon

Lithuania

The Lithuanian Sports Federation selected ten pairs from the applicants for the national preliminary decision, which then competed weekly from July 4th; a couple was selected in each broadcast. The jury and telephone voting took place in the “ Eurovision Song Contest style” with 12 points for the best couple, 10 points for the second best couple and 8 to 1 points for the following couples. In the last round on August 22nd, the Lithuanian TV audience and the jury chose Gabrielë Valiukaitë and Gintaras Svistunavicius .

Netherlands

The Netherlands held a national preliminary round on August 4th, in which only professional couples could participate. The winning pair was determined by telephone voting.

Austria

The couple Kelly and Andy Kainz were selected internally by ORF. They got the ticket for London because in all three " Dancing Stars " seasons one of the two won as a professional dancer (Andy Kainz with Marika Lichter , Kelly Kainz with Manuel Ortega and Klaus Eberhartinger ).

Poland

As winners of the second season of the Polish edition of Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z gwiazdami - Kasia Cichopek and Marcin Hakiel were given the opportunity to represent their country in the Eurovision Dance Contest. This means that Poland will also be represented by a “mixed” couple; Kasia Cichopek is actually an actress. They have a dance school together.

Portugal

The Portuguese television broadcaster RTP selects the participants internally. The dancer will be Sónia Araújo, prominent winner of the second "Dança Comigo" season ("Dance with me"). Your male colleague is Ricardo Silva.

Russia

The Russian television broadcaster RTR has internally nominated the news anchor Maria Sittel and the professional dancer Vladislav Borodinov for the Eurovision Dance Contest.

Sweden

Cecilia "Cissy" Ehrling & Martin Lidberg received the ticket for London as winners of the current "Let's Dance" season in Sweden. Like Germany, Sweden is represented by a couple consisting of a celebrity and a professional dancer (Martin Lidberg is a wrestler by profession ).

Switzerland

The Swiss television broadcaster selected the couple, consisting of figure skater Denise Biellmann and professional dancer Sven Ninnemann, internally and announced them at the beginning of July.

Spain

The Spanish dance couple was chosen as part of the Mira quien baila a Eurovision program . The format was very similar to Let's Dance , but instead of celebrities, unknown people take part. In addition, a celebrity took part as a “guest dancer” in each program. In the final on July 9th, there were still four couples facing each other, Amagoya Benlloch and Abraham Martinet Fernandez were the favorites of both the audience voting by telephone and the jury.

Participating dance couples were:

  • Amagoya & Abraham (1st place)
  • Judit & Robert (2nd place)
  • Lorena & Pol (3rd place)
  • Masha & Nicolas (4th place)

Ukraine

Yulia Okropiridze & Illya Sydorenko were selected in an interactive voting organized by the national TV channel UT-1. Five more couples took part in the national preselection on June 8th, in which each couple presented three dances: two came from their official concert programs, as well as a freestyle dance, which should have elements typical of the country. The winners won with 679 votes, 84 votes ahead of the second placed couple Vitaliy Zagoruiko & Ganna Priadkina.

Participating dance couples were (in starting order):

  • Zurab Kikabidze & Olena Butko
  • Oleg Negrov & Daria Chesnokova
  • Illya Sydorenko & Yulia Okropiridz
  • Anton Perevodchik & Daria Dovgaliova
  • Andrei Ivanov and Anastasia Shanina
  • Vitaliy Zagoruiko and Ganna Priadkina

United Kingdom

Camilla Dallerup and Brendan Cole were selected internally by the BBC. Both have already participated in all seasons of the show Strictly Come Dancing , Cole won the first season together with Natasha Kaplinsky. The couple has been going separate ways privately and professionally for some time and will dance together for the last time for the Eurovision Dance Contest.

Scoring board

  Forgive
AustriaAustria DenmarkDenmark FinlandFinland GermanyGermany GreeceGreece IrelandIreland LithuaniaLithuania NetherlandsNetherlands PolandPoland PortugalPortugal RussiaRussia SpainSpain SwedenSweden SwitzerlandSwitzerland UkraineUkraine United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Switzerland - - - - - - - - - - - - - X - -
Russia 3 - 10 7th - 5 6th 3 4th 8th X 4th - - 12 10
Netherlands 7th - 3 2 12 2 - X 3 - - - - 5 - -
Great Britain - 3 - - 3 7th 5 - - - - - - - - X
Austria X 8th 7th 10 2 4th 3 5 6th 5 3 3 4th 7th 5 2
Germany 10 7th - X - - - 6th 5 6th 5 7th 2 10 1 -
Greece 4th 1 - 5 X - 4th 1 2 2 4th - 1 2 - 5
Lithuania - - 1 - 4th 12 X - 1 1 1 - 3 - 6th 6th
Spain - - 5 - 7th - - 2 - 12 2 X - 6th 4th -
Ireland 6th 12 6th 3 1 X 8th 7th 10 3 10 5 7th 1 8th 8th
Poland 8th 4th - 12 - 10 1 4th X - 8th 6th 10 4th 10 7th
Denmark 1 X 4th 1 6th 3 7th - - 4th - 2 8th - 2 -
Portugal 2 2 2 8th 8th - 2 8th - X 6th 12 6th 12 3 3
Ukraine 5 6th 12 6th 5 6th 12 10 12 7th 12 8th 5 3 X 12
Sweden - 5 8th - - 1 - - 7th - - 1 X - - 1
Finland 12 10 X 4th 10 8th 10 12 8th 10 7th 10 12 8th 7th 4th

poll

15 countries voted by televoting . Since the program was not broadcast live in Greece due to the ongoing fire disaster, the substitute jury was asked to vote. As with the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006, the lines were already open at the beginning of the broadcast. The ratings were given according to the countries in alphabetical order (according to the English names), with the scoring table being updated after points one to seven had been read out before the first three places were read out.

Comments on the vote

  • Nine of the 16 countries, almost three fifths, received the highest rating of twelve points at least once.
  • Second-placed Ukraine received the highest rating five times.
  • As in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 and 2007 , Lithuania received the only twelve points from Ireland.
  • Austria, Ireland, Ukraine and Finland received points from all other countries.
  • Finland was seen in the top four by almost all countries, only Germany and Great Britain each gave four points.

Start order

Switzerland came first and came last, Finland came last and finished first. Also, all countries that made the top four appeared in the second half; Furthermore, Sweden was the only country not to make it into the top ten in the second half.

Neighborhood voting

Some countries got their highest scores from neighboring countries: Russia (12 from Ukraine, 10 from Finland), Great Britain (7 from Ireland), Austria (10 from Germany), Germany (10 from Austria and Switzerland), Spain (12 from Portugal), Poland (12 from Germany) and Denmark (8 from Sweden); however, none of these countries made it into the top three.

Other countries received above-average ratings from other countries: Ireland (12 from Denmark), the Netherlands (12 from Greece) and Lithuania (12 from Ireland). In addition, Switzerland received no points from its German and Austrian neighbors; nor did the five Danish points to Sweden and the four Finnish points to Denmark testify to neighborhood voting.

The substitute jury

The result of the Greek substitute jury differed significantly in places from the nations voting by telephone: 12 points went to the Netherlands (by far the highest score of the evening), two points to Austria (together with Great Britain, the lowest of the evening). Nevertheless, Greece gave 10 points to the eventual winners from Finland.

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0521/celebrityjigsnreels.html
  2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/07_july/04/dance.shtml