Eurovision Dance Contest 2007

The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the inaugural edition of the Eurovision Dance Contest, a dance competition co-production between the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries.

Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
Dates
Final1 September 2007
Host
VenueBBC Television Centre,[1] London, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)Graham Norton
Claudia Winkleman[1]
Directed byNikki Parsons
Executive supervisorTal Barnea
Executive producer
Host broadcasterBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Interval actEnrique Iglesias performing "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)"
Participants
Number of entries16
Debuting countries
Participation map
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         Participating countries
Vote
Voting systemEach country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite acts.
Nul points  Switzerland
Winning dancers Finland
Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen

Viewers cast their votes by telephone and SMS text message voting on each couple's two dances – the first being ballroom or Latin with the second being freestyle, with a "national" flavour. Professional dance couples were allowed to enter the competition. Comedian Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman presented the 2007 contest from the BBC Television Centre in London.

The first ever winners of the contest were Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen of Finland who received a total of 132 points. 2nd place went to Ukraine, 3rd to Ireland, 4th to Poland and 5th place to Austria following a tie with Portugal, who also received 74 points.

Location
Further information on the host city: London
BBC Television Centre, London - host venue of the 2007 contest.

The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. It remained to be one of the largest such facilities in the world until it closed in March 2013.[2]

Production

The contest was hosted by the BBC,[3] and was a co-production by Splash Media – run by the developers of its successful Strictly Come Dancing format – and sports production house Sunset + Vine – with help from the International DanceSport Federation and in association with the European Broadcasting Union.

The contest was broadcast in English and French languages, although France did not take part.[4] Each broadcaster also had the option of providing its own commentators at the event. UK commentators were Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli.

Participants

The Croatian broadcaster HRT had expressed an interest in taking part,[5] but pulled out due to costs and scheduling problems.

As well as those countries that took part, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Iceland, Israel and Macedonia also broadcast the contest despite not taking part in it, with possibility to join it in 2008.[6]

The running order for the 16 participants was announced on 6 August 2007 and had been determined in two steps. In the first round, the participating countries were drawn into groups, under supervision of an auditor. In the second round, the producers of the contest determined the final running order within the drawn groups to assure variety in the live show.[7]

Due to the forest fires in Greece, the Greek national broadcaster ERT did not air the show live and therefore used a back-up jury instead of televoting.[8]

Austria and Portugal both finished with the same number of points, however, Austria received points from every other participating nation thus receiving points from more countries than Portugal, hence Austria took 5th place.

DrawCountryDancersDance StylesPlacePoints
01  SwitzerlandDenise Biellmann and Sven NinnemannPaso Doble and Swing160
02 RussiaMariya Sittel and Vladislav BorodinovRumba and Paso Doble772
03 NetherlandsAlexandra Matteman and Redmond ValkCha-Cha-Cha and Rumba1234
04 United KingdomCamilla Dallerup and Brendan ColeRumba and Freestyle1518
05 AustriaKelly and Andy KainzJive and Paso Doble574
06 GermanyWolke Hegenbarth and Oliver SeefeldtSamba dance and Freestyle859
07 GreeceOurania Kolliou and Spiros PavlidisJive and Sirtaki1331
08 LithuaniaGabrielė Valiukaitė and Gintaras SvistunavičiusPaso Doble and Traditional Lithuanian Folk Dance1135
09 SpainAmagoya Benlloch and Abraham MartinezCha-Cha-Cha and Paso Doble1038
10 IrelandNicola Byrne and Mick DoneganJive and Fandango395
11 PolandKatarzyna Cichopek and Marcin HakielCha-Cha-Cha and Showdance484
12 DenmarkMette Skou Elkjær and David Jørgensen Rumba and Showdance938
13 PortugalSónia Araújo and Ricardo SilvaJive and Tango674
14 UkraineYulia Okropiridze and Illya SydorenkoQuickstep and Showdance2121
15 SwedenCecilia Ehrling and Martin LidbergPaso Doble and Disco Fusion1423
16 FinlandKatja Koukkula and Jussi VäänänenRumba and Paso Doble1132

Scoreboard

The following 16 countries took part,[4][9] and received the scores shown below.

  Voters
Switzerland
Russia
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Austria
Germany
Greece
Lithuania
Spain
Ireland
Poland
Denmark
Portugal
Ukraine
Sweden
Finland
Contestants
 Switzerland
Russia 31037645481210
Netherlands 572123
United Kingdom 3573
Austria 7352102334685547
Germany 105610757612
Greece 24154542121
Lithuania 1641211631
Spain 62271245
Ireland 110786318510123876
Poland 4847812161041010
Denmark 1167234284
Portugal 126832882122362
Ukraine 312101256512861267512
Sweden 11758
Finland 87124124101010881010712
THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the contest:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
5  Ukraine  Finland
 Lithuania
 Poland
 Russia
 United Kingdom
3  Finland  Austria
 Netherlands
 Sweden
2  Portugal  Spain
  Switzerland
1  Ireland  Denmark
 Lithuania  Ireland
 Netherlands  Greece
 Poland  Germany
 Russia  Ukraine
 Spain  Portugal

International broadcasts and voting

Voting and spokespersons

The order in which each country announced their votes was done in order of performance. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.[8]

  1.   Switzerland – Cécile Bähler
  2.  Russia – Like Kremer
  3.  Netherlands – Marcus van Teijlingen
  4.  United Kingdom – Kirsty Gallagher
  5.  Austria – Peter L. Eppinger
  6.  Germany – Alice Kessler and Ellen Kessler
  7.  Greece – George Amyras
  8.  Lithuania – Lavija Šurnaitė-Kairienė
  9.  Spain – Jesús Álvarez
  10.  Ireland – Pamela Flood
  11.  Poland – Ewelina Kopic
  12.  Denmark – Louise Wolff
  13.  Portugal – Marta Leite de Castro
  14.  Ukraine – Svetoslav Vlokh
  15.  Sweden – Ulrica Bengtsson
  16.  Finland – Johanna Pirttilahti

Commentators

Most countries sent commentators to London or commentated from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, provide voting information.

Participating countries

Non-participating countries
  •  Albania – Leon Menkshi (RTSH)
  •  Armenia – Felix Khacatryan and Hrachuhi Utmazyan (ARMTV)
  •  Belarus – Dmitry Karas and Vladimir Parakhnevich (BTRC)[11]
  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Dejan Kukrić (BHRT)[11]
  •  Cyprus – Melina Karageorgiou (CyBC 1)
  •  France – Sylvie Guillem and Julien Lepers (France 3)
  •  Iceland – Eva Maria Jonsdottir (RÚV)[11]
  •  Israel – No commentator (Channel 1)
  •  Macedonia – Milanka Rašić (MKRTV)

See also

References
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  3. "BBC - Press Office - The last dance for Camilla and Brendan". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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  9. "Eurovision Dance Contest unveiled". BBC News. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  12. "Юлія Окропірідзе та Ілля Сидоренко стали другими у Європі!". NTU. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
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