Eurovision Young Dancers 1995

6. Eurovision Young Dancers
date	June 3, 1995 (semi-finals) June 6, 1995 (final)
Host country	Switzerland
venue	Palais de Beaulieu , Lausanne
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Geraldine Chaplin & Jean-Pierre Pastori
Pause filler	Moments in a garden of Spain (Flamenco show by Nina Corti and her musicians)
participating countries	15th
winner	Spain
First time participation	Hungary Russia
Withdrawn participants	Denmark Estonia
Voting rule	A jury of experts determines the first three places. The remaining results remain unpublished.
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The 6th Eurovision Young Dancers took place on June 6, 1995 in the Palais de Beaulieu , in Lausanne , Switzerland . The organizer was SRG SSR , which was commissioned to host a Eurovision Young Dancer for the first time.

The winner was the Spanish dance duo Jesús Pastor Sahuquillo & Ruth Miró Salvado with their dance Arrayan Daraxa . It was Spain's fourth win in the competition and the third in a row. At that time, no other country except Ireland had managed to win a Eurovision competition three times in a row in the Eurovision Song Contest . Second place went to the Swedish dancer Nadja Sellrup, while the Belgian dancer Jeroen Hofmans took third place.

venue

SRG SSR chose the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne as the venue . Switzerland hosted the Eurovision Song Contest there as early as 1989 . However, it was the first time that Switzerland hosted an EYD.

format

Dancers between the ages of 16 and 21 could perform. However, only solo dancers or couples could compete. There was another semi-final, as the number of participants would otherwise exceed the time frame. There all 15 participants competed against each other, of which only nine qualified for the final. There was still a professional jury, but it again awarded 1st to 3rd place. The chairman of the jury was the Swiss choreographer Heinz Spoerli . The other jury members were:

• Oscar Araiz
• Maurice Béjart
• Gigi Gheorghe Caciuleanu
• Paola Cantalupo
• Beatrice Consuelo
• Peter Van Dyk
• Pierre Lacotte
• Gilbert Mayer
• Víctor Ullate
• Jorma Uotinen
• Youri Vámos

Moderation

The US-American-British actress Geraldine Chaplin and the Swiss presenter Jean-Pierre Pastori acted as moderators.

Attendees

Countries that participated in 1995

Countries that have already been eliminated in the semi-finals

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 1995

A total of 15 countries took part in Eurovision Young Dancers 1995, as many as in the previous two editions. However, Denmark and Estonia withdrew from the competition. Russia and Hungary made their debut in 1995.

Semifinals

The 1995 semi-finals took place on June 3rd, three days before the final. The following countries have already been eliminated in the semi-finals:

country	Attendees	Dance Choreography (C)
Germany	Irina Schlaht	La Esmeralda C: M. Petipa
Finland	Janna Eklund	La Esmeralda: Variation de Diane C: A. Vaganova
Norway	Maria Mikalsen	Les mots sont allés C: I. Bjørnsgaard
Slovenia	Damjan Mohorko	La Fille mal gardée: Variation de Colas C: M. Petipa, L. Ivanov
Hungary	Sara Weisz	Death C: T. Juronics
Cyprus	Carolina Constadinou	La Esmeralda C: M. Petipa

final

Nine countries competed against each other. Only the first three places were announced.

space	Start number	country	Attendees	Dance Choreography (C)
1.	9	Spain	Jesús Pastor Sahuquillo & Ruth Miró Salvador	Arrayan Daraxa C: V. Ullate
2.	8th	Sweden	Nadja Sellrup	Grand pas classique C: V. Gsovsky
3.	6th	Belgium	Jeroen Hofmans	Giselle : variation du paysan C: M. Petipa, J. Coralli , J. Perrot
-	1	Greece	Franghiskos Toumbakaris	Ondine: variation acte II C: John Neumeier
-	2	Poland	Filip Barankiewicz	Paquita C: M. Petipa
-	3	Switzerland (host)	Anne-Catherine Haller	Raymonda C: M. Petipa
-	4th	Austria	Oliver Preiss	Taras Bulba: Gopak C: R. Zakharov
-	5	Russia	Maria Alexandrova	Coppélia: variation de Swanilda C: M. Petipa
-	7th	France	Karl Paquette	La Bayadère C: R. Nureyev

transmission

A total of 18 television companies broadcast the event:

country	Channel
participating countries
Belgium	BRTN , RTBF
Germany	ZDF
Finland	YLE
France	France 3
Greece	ERT
Norway	NRK
Austria	ORF
Poland	TVP
Russia	RTR
Sweden	SVT1
Switzerland	SRG SSR
Slovenia	RTV SLO
Spain	RTVE
Hungary	MTV
Cyprus	CyBC
Countries not participating
Bulgaria	BNT
Denmark	DR
Romania	TVR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} EBU : The Eurovision Young Dancers 1995 Official Booklet. In: issuu.com. January 27, 2013, accessed July 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} EBU : Eurovision Young Dancers 1995. In: youngdancers.tv. Retrieved July 21, 2019 . 

Web links

• Website (English)