Eurovision Dance Contest 2007

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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 a medley of "Tired of Being Sorry" and "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)"
Participants
Number of entries16
Debuting countries
  •  Austria
  •  Denmark
  •  Finland
  •  Germany
  •  Greece
  •  Ireland
  •  Lithuania
  •  Netherlands
  •  Poland
  •  Portugal
  •  Russia
  •  Spain
  •  Sweden
  •   Switzerland
  •  Ukraine
  •  United Kingdom
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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
Eurovision Dance Contest → 2008

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.

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]

Format[]

Running order[]

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.[3]

Visual design[]

The logo of 2007 Contest features the word Eurovision written in the same way as it is on the Eurovision Song Contest logos without the heart but included the silhouette of a dancing couple in front of a star that contains the flag of the host country, the United Kingdom.

Host broadcaster[]

The contest was hosted by the BBC, 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.[4]

The contest was broadcast in English and French languages, although France did not take part.[5] Each broadcaster also had the option of providing its own commentators at the event.

Participants[]

The Croatian broadcaster HRT had expressed an interest in taking part,[6] but pulled out due to costs and scheduling problems.[citation needed]

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.[7]

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.

Draw Country Dancers[8] Dance Styles[8] Place[9] Points[9]
Dance 1 Dance 2
01   Switzerland Denise Biellmann and Paso Doble Swing 16 0
02  Russia and Rumba Paso Doble 7 72
03  Netherlands and Cha-Cha-Cha Rumba 12 34
04  United Kingdom Camilla Dallerup and Brendan Cole Rumba Freestyle 15 18
05  Austria Kelly and Jive Paso Doble 5 74
06  Germany Wolke Hegenbarth and Samba dance Freestyle 8 59
07  Greece and Jive Sirtaki 13 31
08  Lithuania and Paso Doble Traditional Lithuanian Folk Dance 11 35
09  Spain and Cha-Cha-Cha Paso Doble 10 38
10  Ireland and Jive Fandango 3 95
11  Poland Katarzyna Cichopek and Cha-Cha-Cha Showdance 4 84
12  Denmark and Rumba Showdance 9 38
13  Portugal Sónia Araújo and Jive Tango 6 74
14  Ukraine and Quickstep Showdance 2 121
15  Sweden Cecilia Ehrling and Martin Lidberg Paso Doble Disco Fusion 14 23
16  Finland Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen Rumba Paso Doble 1 132

Scoreboard[]

The following 16 countries took part,[5][10] and received the scores shown below.

Voting results[11]
Voting procedure used:
  100% televoting
  100% jury vote
Total score
Switzerland
Russia
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Austria
Germany
Greece
Lithuania
Spain
Ireland
Poland
Denmark
Portugal
Ukraine
Sweden
Finland
Contestants
 Switzerland 0
Russia 72 3 10 3 7 6 4 5 4 8 12 10
Netherlands 34 5 7 2 12 3
United Kingdom 18 3 5 7 3
Austria 74 7 3 5 2 10 2 3 3 4 6 8 5 5 4 7
Germany 59 10 5 6 10 7 5 7 6 1 2
Greece 31 2 4 1 5 4 5 4 2 1 2 1
Lithuania 35 1 6 4 12 1 1 6 3 1
Spain 38 6 2 2 7 12 4 5
Ireland 95 1 10 7 8 6 3 1 8 5 10 12 3 8 7 6
Poland 84 4 8 4 7 8 12 1 6 10 4 10 10
Denmark 38 1 1 6 7 2 3 4 2 8 4
Portugal 74 12 6 8 3 2 8 8 2 12 2 3 6 2
Ukraine 121 3 12 10 12 5 6 5 12 8 6 12 6 7 5 12
Sweden 23 1 1 7 5 8
Finland 132 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:

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

Spokespersons[]

The order in which each country announced their votes was done in order of performance. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.[8][7]

  1.   Switzerland –  [de]
  2.  Russia –  [ru]
  3.  Netherlands – Marcus van Teijlingen
  4.  United Kingdom – Kirsty Gallacher
  5.  Austria –  [de]
  6.  Germany – Alice and Ellen Kessler
  7.  Greece –
  8.  Lithuania –  [lt]
  9.  Spain –  [es]
  10.  Ireland – Pamela Flood
  11.  Poland –  [pl]
  12.  Denmark –  [dk]
  13.  Portugal –  [pt]
  14.  Ukraine – Svetoslav Vlokh
  15.  Sweden –  [sv]
  16.  Finland –  [fi]

Broadcasts[]

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.[12]

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF 1 Andi Knoll and Nicole Burns-Hansen [8][13]
 Denmark DR1 Sisse Fisker and Claus Larsen [8][14]
 Finland Yle TV2 Sirpa Suutari-Jääskö and Jaana Pelkonen [8][15]
 Germany Das Erste Peter Urban and [8][16]
 Greece NET, ERT World (delayed) and [8]
 Ireland RTÉ One Marty Whelan and [8][17]
 Lithuania LRT1 and [8][18]
 Netherlands Nederland 1 Lucille Werner and  [nl] [8][19]
 Poland TVP2 Artur Orzech and [8][16]
 Portugal RTP1, RTP Internacional, RTP África , and [8][20]
 Russia Russia-1, RTR-Planeta Anastasia Zavorotnyuk and [8]
 Spain TVE1, TVE Internacional Beatriz Pécker and [8][21]
 Sweden TV4 David Hellenius and Tony Irving [8][22]
  Switzerland SF 1 German: and  [de] [8]
TSI 1 Italian: and
 Ukraine Pershyi Natsionalnyi Timur Miroshnychenko and [8][23]
 United Kingdom BBC One Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli [8][24]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Albania RTSH Leon Menkshi
 Armenia ARMTV and
 Belarus BTRC and [16]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT [16]
 Cyprus CyBC 1
 Iceland RÚV (40 minutes delay) [16]
 Israel Channel 1 No commentary
 Macedonia MKRTV

Viewing figures[]

Estimated viewership by country (in millions)
Country Viewership (in millions) Ref(s)
 Austria 0.68 [16]
 Denmark 0.51 [16]
 Finland 0.38 [16]
 Germany 3.1 [16]
 Ireland 0.36 [16]
 Israel 0.08 [16]
 Lithuania ~0.65 [16]
 Netherlands 0.76 [16]
 Poland 4 [16]
 Portugal 1.4 [16]
 Russia ~2.4 [16]
 Spain 2.2 [16]
 Sweden 1.4 [16]
  Switzerland 0.35 (SRF 1) [16]
~0.02 (TSI 1)
 Ukraine ~0.3 [16]
 United Kingdom 3.8 [16]
Total ~23 [16]

See also[]

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