Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 | |
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Dates | |
Final | 1 September 2007 |
Host | |
Venue | BBC Television Centre, London, United Kingdom |
Presenter(s) | Graham Norton Claudia Winkleman |
Directed by | Nikki Parsons |
Executive supervisor | Tal Barnea |
Executive producer |
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Host broadcaster | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 16 |
Debuting countries |
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Vote | |
Voting system | Each country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite acts. |
Winning dancers | ![]() Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen |
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. Enrique Iglesias performed a medley of "Tired of Being Sorry" and "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)" during the interval.
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.
Alongside the announcement as host broadcaster, the host city, venue and presenters for the contest were announced by the BBC on 13 April 2007. [1]
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] In September 2017, BBC Studioworks re-opened the three studios at Television Centre, alongside a range of post-production facilities and ancillary areas. [3]
Television Centre previously hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 after France, which won the year before, declined to host it due to financial shortcomings, also having hosted the competition in 1959 and 1961. [4] The last time the United Kingdom hosted one of the Eurovision's network Family of Events was the Eurovision Young Dancers 2001, which was also held in London. [5]
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. [6]
The contest was broadcast in English and French languages, although France did not take part. [7] Each broadcaster also had the option of providing its own commentators at the event.
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. [8]
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. [9]
Singer Enrique Iglesias, son of Spain's 1970 Eurovision entrant Julio Iglesias, performed a medley of "Tired of Being Sorry" and "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)" as the interval act. [10] [11] The performance was pre-recorded before the live show. [12]
On 18 January 2007, the EBU officially announced the creation of this new dance contest. At the time, fourteen countries had already expressed their interest in taking part, with a production meeting taking place the day before in London. [13] On 13 April, BBC News Online incorrectly reported that thirteen countries would compete in the upcoming inaugural contest that autumn; these being Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom. [14] Greece, Lithuania and Poland were not included in the list despite being confirmed as participants. The Croatian broadcaster HRT was one of the 14 countries that had initially expressed an interest in taking part (alongside Ukraine), [15] 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. [16]
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.
R/O | Country | Dancers [17] | Dance Styles [17] | Place [18] | Points [18] | |
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Dance 1 | Dance 2 | |||||
01 | ![]() | Denise Biellmann and Sven Ninnemann | Paso Doble | Swing | 16 | 0 |
02 | ![]() | Mariya Sittel and Vladislav Borodinov | Rumba | Paso Doble | 7 | 72 |
03 | ![]() | Alexandra Matteman and Redmond Valk | Cha-Cha-Cha | Rumba | 12 | 34 |
04 | ![]() | Camilla Dallerup and Brendan Cole | Rumba | Freestyle | 15 | 18 |
05 | ![]() | Kelly and Andy Kainz | Jive | Paso Doble | 5 | 74 |
06 | ![]() | Wolke Hegenbarth and Oliver Seefeldt | Samba dance | Freestyle | 8 | 59 |
07 | ![]() | Ourania Kolliou and Spiros Pavlidis | Jive | Sirtaki | 13 | 31 |
08 | ![]() | Gabrielė Valiukaitė and Gintaras Svistunavičius | Paso Doble | Traditional Lithuanian Folk Dance | 11 | 35 |
09 | ![]() | Amagoya Benlloch and Abraham Martinez | Cha-Cha-Cha | Paso Doble | 10 | 38 |
10 | ![]() | Nicola Byrne and Mick Donegan | Jive | Fandango | 3 | 95 |
11 | ![]() | Katarzyna Cichopek and Marcin Hakiel | Cha-Cha-Cha | Showdance | 4 | 84 |
12 | ![]() | Mette Skou Elkjær and David Jørgensen | Rumba | Showdance | 9 | 38 |
13 | ![]() | Sónia Araújo and Ricardo Silva | Jive | Tango | 6 | 74 |
14 | ![]() | Yulia Okropiridze and Illya Sydorenko | Quickstep | Showdance | 2 | 121 |
15 | ![]() | Cecilia Ehrling and Martin Lidberg | Paso Doble | Disco Fusion | 14 | 23 |
16 | ![]() | Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen | Rumba | Paso Doble | 1 | 132 |
The following 16 countries took part, [7] and received the scores shown below.
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 | |
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Contestants | Switzerland | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Russia | 72 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 10 | ||||||
Netherlands | 34 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 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 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |||||||||||
Finland | 132 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 |
Below is a summary of all 12 points in the contest:
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The order in which each country announced their votes was done in alphabetical order of each countries. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country. [17] [16]
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. [20] Among the countries that took part, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Iceland, Israel and North Macedonia also broadcast the event without sending representatives. [21]
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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![]() | RTSH | Leon Menkshi | |
![]() | ARMTV | Felix Khacatryan and Hrachuhi Utmazyan | |
![]() | BTRC | Dmitry Karas and Vladimir Parakhnevich | [35] |
![]() | BHT 1 | Dejan Kukrić | [36] |
![]() | CyBC 1 | Melina Karageorgiou | |
![]() | RÚV (40 minutes delay) | Eva Maria Jonsdottir | [32] |
![]() | Channel 1 | No commentary | |
![]() | MKRTV | Milanka Rašić |
Country | Viewership | Ref(s) |
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![]() | 0.68 | [32] [37] |
![]() | 0.51 | [32] |
![]() | 0.38 | [32] |
![]() | 3.1 | [32] [37] |
![]() | 0.36 | [32] |
![]() | 0.08 | [32] [37] |
![]() | ~0.65 | [32] |
![]() | 0.76 | [32] [37] |
![]() | 4 | [32] |
![]() | 1.4 | [32] |
![]() | ~2.4 | [32] |
![]() | 2.2 | [32] [37] |
![]() | 1.4 | [32] [37] |
![]() | 0.35 (SRF 1) | [32] [37] |
~0.02 (TSI 1) | ||
![]() | ~0.3 | [32] |
![]() | 3.8 | [32] [37] |
Total | ~23 | [32] |
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Austria has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 56 times since its debut in 1957. The country has won twice, in 1966 and 2014, and such it holds the record for the longest gap between consecutive wins — 48 years. The contest is broadcast in Austria by ORF. Vienna was the host city on both of the occasions that the contest was held in Austria, in 1967 and 2015.
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Albania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland, with the song "Hear My Plea" performed by Frederik Ndoci and Aida Ndoci. Its selected entry was chosen through the national selection competition Festivali i Këngës organised by Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) in December 2006. To this point, the nation had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest three times since its first entry in 2004. Due to the non-top 11 result in the previous contest, Albania was drawn to compete in the semi-final of the contest, which took place on 10 May 2007. Performing as number 11, the nation was not announced among the top 10 entries of the semi-final and therefore failed to qualify for the grand final, marking Albania's second non-qualification in the contest.
Ireland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "They Can't Stop the Spring" written by John Waters and Tommy Moran. The song was performed by the band Dervish, which was internally selected in November 2006 by the Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) to represent the nation at the 2007 contest in Helsinki, Finland. RTÉ organised the national final Eurosong 2007 to select the song that Dervish would perform. Four songs faced a public televote, ultimately resulting in the selection of "They Can't Stop the Spring" as the Irish entry.
Austria participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Get a Life – Get Alive" written by Greg Usek and Austin Howard. The song was performed by Eric Papilaya. In October 2006, the Austrian broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) announced that they would be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest after a one-year absence following their withdrawal in 2006 due to poor results in the 2005 contest. On 20 February 2007, ORF announced that they had internally selected Eric Papilaya to compete at the 2007 contest in Helsinki, Finland, while "Get a Life – Get Alive" was presented to the public on 7 March 2007.
Macedonia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Mojot svet" written by Grigor Koprov and Ognen Nedelkovski. The song was performed by Karolina who previously represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 with the song "Od nas zavisi", placing nineteenth in the competition. The Macedonian broadcaster Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) organised the national final Pesna za Evrovizija 2007 in order to select the Macedonian entry for the 2007 contest in Helsinki, Finland. Fifteen entries competed in the competition on 24 February 2007 where "Mojot svet" performed by Karolina Gočeva was selected by a regional televote.
Ukraine participated in Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Shady Lady" written by Karen Kavaleryan, Philip Kirkorov and Dimitris Kontopoulos. The song was performed by Ani Lorak, who was internally selected in December 2007 by the Ukrainian broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) to represent Ukraine at the 2008 contest in Belgrade, Serbia. Her song was selected through a national final held on 23 February 2008. Five songs competed in the national selection and "Shady Lady" was selected as the winning song following the combination of votes from a four-member jury panel and a public televote.
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