Eurovision Young Dancers 2005

11. Eurovision Young Dancers
date	June 22, 2005 (semi-finals) June 24, 2005 (final)
Host country	Poland
venue	Warsaw National Theater , Warsaw
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Agata Konarska
Pause filler	Ocelot - acrobatic dance theater
participating countries	13
winner	Netherlands
Withdrawn participants	Armenia Estonia Switzerland Ukraine
Voting rule	A jury of experts determines the first three places. The remaining results remain unpublished.
◄ EYD 2003 • EYD 2011 ►

The 11th Eurovision Young Dancers took place on June 24, 2005 in the National Theater Warsaw , in Warsaw , Poland . The host was TVP , which held an EYD again after 1997 . At the time, Poland was only the second country to host an EYD more than once.

The winner was the Dutch dancer Milou Nuyens with her dance Snakesense . It was the first time that the Netherlands won the competition. The host country Poland came in second with the dance couple Elena Karpuhina & Michał Wylot. 3rd place went to the Belgian dancer Marjorie Lenain.

venue

TVP selected the Warsaw National Theater in Warsaw as the venue . It was the second time since 1997 that Poland hosted an EYD. At the time, Poland and France together were the only countries that hosted the competition multiple times.

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 13 participants competed against each other, but only ten of them qualified for the final. There was still a professional jury, but this again awarded 1st to 3rd place and no longer three prizes as was the case in 2003. The jury was chaired by the Russian dancer and choreographer Maja Michailowna Plissezkaja . The president of the jury was the Russian dancer Irek Mukhamedov. The other jury members were:

• Gigi Caciuelanu
• Krzysztof pastor
• Jorma Uotinen
• Emil Wesolowski

Moderation

The Polish presenter Agata Konarska acted as moderator.

Attendees

Countries that participated in 2005

Countries that have already been eliminated in the semi-finals

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 2005

A total of 13 countries took part in Eurovision Young Dancers 2005, four fewer than in 2003. Armenia, Estonia, Switzerland and Ukraine withdrew from the competition. In addition, for the first time in the history of the 2005 competition there were no debutants. With 13 participants it was the smallest competition since the beginning of 1985, where only eleven countries took part.

Semifinals

The 2005 semi-finals took place on June 22nd, two days before the final. The following countries have already been eliminated in the semi-finals:

country	Attendees	Dance Choreography (C)
Norway	Fransiska Sveinall	Le Corsaire C: M. Petipa
Slovenia	Alena Medič	Paquita V C: M. Petipa
Cyprus	Joánna Avraám	La Bayadère C: N. Makarova, M. Petipa

final

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

space	country	Attendees	Dance Choreography (C)
1.	Netherlands	Milou Nuyens	Snakesense C: R. van Berkel
2.	Poland (hosts)	Elena Karpuhina & Michał Wylot	May I have a dance C: R. Komassa
3.	Belgium	Marjorie Lenain	Esmeralda C: M. Petipa
-	Finland	Riku Lehtopolku & Mikko Lampinen	Could you take some of my weight ...? C: T. Saarinen
-	Greece	Eleana Andreoudi	Don Quixote C: M. Petipa
-	Latvia	Sabine Guravska	Paquita C: M. Petipa
-	Romania	Robert Stefan Enache	Variation of "Le Corsaire C: M. Petipa
-	Sweden	Danielle Rosengren	Grand Pas Classique C: V. Gsovsky
-	Czech Republic	Šárka Faberová & Pavel Povrazník	Paganini Pas de Deux C: V. Schneiderová
-	United Kingdom	Alexander Jones	Impossible Self C: L. King

transmission

A total of 14 television companies broadcast the event:

country	Channel
participating countries
Belgium	RTBF
Finland	YLE
Greece	ERT
Latvia	LTV
Netherlands	NPS
Norway	NRK
Poland	TVP
Romania	TVR
Sweden	SVT
Slovenia	RTV SLO
Czech Republic	ČT
United Kingdom	BBC
Cyprus	CyBC
Countries not participating
Ukraine	NTU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} EBU : The Eurovision Young Dancers 2005 Official Booklet. In: issuu.com. July 6, 2014, accessed July 22, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} EBU : Eurovision Young Dancers 2005. In: youngdancers.tv. Accessed July 22, 2019 . 

Web links

• Website (English)