Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
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| Dates | |
| Final date | 1 September 2007 |
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| Venue | BBC Television Centre,[1] London, United Kingdom |
| Presenter(s) | Graham Norton Claudia Winkleman[1] |
| Host broadcaster |  BBC |
| Interval act | Enrique Iglesias |
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| Number of entries | 16 |
| Debuting countries |  Austria Denmark Finland Germany Greece Ireland Lithuania Netherlands Poland Portugal Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom |
| Returning countries | None |
| Withdrawing countries | None |
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| Voting system | Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite acts. |
| Nul points | Switzerland |
| Winning dancers | Finland Katja Koukkula & Jussi Väänänen |
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The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the 1st Eurovision Dance Contest a dance entertainment co-production between the EBU and the BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries. 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.
The first ever winner of the contest was Finland who received a total of 132 points. 2nd place went to Ukraine 3rd to Ireland, 4th to Poland and 5th place to Austria.
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[edit] Production
The contest was hosted by the BBC,[2] 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.
Comedian Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman presented the 2007 contest from the BBC Television Centre in London.
The contest was broadcast in English and French languages, although France did not take part.[3] Each broadcaster also had the option of providing its own commentators at the event. UK commentators were Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli.
[edit] Participants
The Croatian broadcaster HRT had expressed an interest in taking part, but pulled out due to costs and scheduling problems.[citation needed]
As well as those countries that took part, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Iceland, Israel and FYR Macedonia also broadcast the contest despite not taking part in it, with possibility to join it in 2008.[4]
Due to the forest fires in Greece the Greek national broadcaster ERT did not air the show live and therefore used jury instead of televoting.[5]
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.
[edit] Scoreboard
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The following 16 countries took part[3][6][7], and received the scores shown below.
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Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Russia | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 10 | ||
| Netherlands | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Austria | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | ||
| Germany | 10 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Greece | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Lithuania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Spain | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Ireland | 1 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | ||
| Poland | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | ||
| Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 4 | ||
| Portugal | 12 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Ukraine | 3 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 12 | ||
| Sweden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||
| Finland | 8 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | ||
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[edit] 12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the contest:
[edit] Commentators
Switzerland - Bernhard Thurnheer (SFG), Jean-Marc Richard (TSR), Sandy Altermatt (RTSI)
Russia - Anastasia Zavorotnyuk & Stanislav Popov
Netherlands - Lucille Wener & Cor van de Stroet (Nederland 1)[8]
United Kingdom - Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli (BBC One)
Austria - Andi Knoll
Germany - Peter Urban (Das Erste)
Greece - Fotis Sergoulopoulos (NET)
Lithuania - TBC
Spain - Beatriz Pécker & Joana Subirana (TVE2)
Ireland - Michael Flatley & Gillian Norris
Poland - TBC
Denmark - Nicolaj Molbech & Camilla Miehe-Renard (DR1)
Portugal - Isabel Angelino & Jorge Gabriel (RTP1)
Ukraine - Pavlo Shylko
Sweden - David Hellenius & Tony Irving (TV4)
Finland - Sirpa Suutari-Jääskö & Jaana Pelkonen (YLE TV2)
France (Non participating country) - Sylvie Guillem & Julien Lepers (France 3)
[edit] References
- ^ a b BBC - Press Office - Taking the floor: Eurovision Dance Contest
- ^ BBC - Press Office - The last dance for Camilla and Brendan
- ^ a b EBU.CH :: Eurovision Dance Contest
- ^ Eurovision Dance Contest Òàíöåâàëüíîå Åâðîâèäåíèå
- ^ http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/dance/news.php#12
- ^ "Eurovision Dance Contest unveiled". BBC News. 13 April 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6552075.stm. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/dance/news.php News on the running order of the contest
- ^ http://www.dansschoolvandestroet.nl/archief.htm
[edit] External links
- Official Eurovision Dance Contest website
- EBU Press Release
- International DanceSport Federation official website
- Splash Media's website
- Sunset+Vine's website
- ESCKaz pages on Dance Contest (English/Russian)
- YouTube video on Jussi Väänänen's and Katja Koukkula's winning dance
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