Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
| Eurovision Dance Contest | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 1 September 2007 |
| Host | |
| Venue | BBC Television Centre,[1] London, United Kingdom |
| Presenter(s) | Graham Norton Claudia Winkleman[1] |
| Host broadcaster |  BBC |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 16 |
| Debuting countries | See article |
| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite acts. |
| Winning dancers |  FinlandKatja Koukkula & Jussi Väänänen |
The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the inaugural 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 winner was Finland who received a total of 132 points.
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.
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]
Scoreboard
The following 16 countries took part[6][3][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 | ||
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the contest:
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
- ^ BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Eurovision Dance Contest unveiled
- ^ http://www.eurovision.tv/addons/dance/news.php News on the running order of the contest