Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

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Eurovision Song Contest 2021
CountryFlag of Greece.svg  Greece
National selection
Selection processInternal selection
Selection date(s)Artist: 18 March 2020
Song: 7 January 2021
Selected entrant Stefania
Selected song"Last Dance"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (6th, 184 points)
Final result10th, 170 points
Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Greece participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Greek-Dutch singer Stefania was internally selected by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) to represent the nation with the song "Last Dance", written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Arcade, and Sharon Vaughn. Stefania was due to compete in the 2020 contest with "Supergirl" before that event's eventual cancellation.

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To promote the entry, a music video for the song was released and Stefania made appearances on Greek television and in print media. Greece performed fourth in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held on 20 May 2021, and placed 6th, receiving 184 points. The entry qualified for the final held two days later, where the nation placed 10th with 170 points.

Background

Prior to the 2021 contest, Greece had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 40 times since their debut in 1974. [1] The nation has won once, at the 2005 contest with the song "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, Greece managed to qualify for the final with each of their entries for several years. Between 2004 and 2013, the nation achieved nine top ten placements in the final. To this point, Greece in 2016 with Argo's "Utopian Land" failed to qualify from the semi-finals for the first time ever, being absent from the final for the first time since 2000 and marking Greece's worst result at the contest. In the 2018 contest, Greece failed to qualify for the second time with Yianna Terzi and the song " Oniro mou " finishing 14th in the semi-final. Greece returned to the final in the 2019 contest with Katerine Duska and the song "Better Love", placing 21st with 74 points. [1]

The Greek national broadcaster, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), broadcasts the event within Greece and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. ERT had been in charge of Greece's participation in the contest since their debut in 1974 until 2013, when the broadcaster was shut down by a government directive and replaced with the interim Dimosia Tileorasi (DT) and later by the New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) broadcaster. [2] [3] [4] [5] During this time, from 2013 through 2015, the Greek television station MAD TV organised the selection process. [6] On 28 April 2015, a legislative proposal that resulted in the renaming of NERIT to ERT was approved and signed into law by the Hellenic Parliament; ERT began broadcasting once again on 11 June 2015, [3] [7] and shortly after confirmed their intentions to once again participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. [8]

The Greek broadcaster has used various methods to select the nation's entry in the past, such as internal selections and televised national finals, to choose the performer, song or both to compete at Eurovision. On 18 March 2020, the day of the 2020 contest's cancellation, ERT was one of the first four broadcasters to confirm their participation in the next edition and to announce their continued cooperation with their 2020 artist, Stefania. [9] Born in the Netherlands to a family with Greek ancestry, she had previously represented the Netherlands at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016 as part of the group Kisses, placing eighth. [10] At the age of 18, Stefania was the youngest participant selected to compete in the 2021 contest. [11]

Before Eurovision

Greek-Dutch performer Stefania was selected as the entrant for Greece. Stefania Liberakakis press photo 2020.jpg
Greek-Dutch performer Stefania was selected as the entrant for Greece.

Song selection

With ERT opting to continue their cooperation with 2020 artist Stefania for 2021, it was announced that the same team responsible for the songwriting and the choreography of the 2020 entry would also be used for the 2021 contest, and that the song would be selected internally. [12] On 14 December 2020, ERT revealed the names of the people who would comprise the jury panel involved with the selection of the song. The jury consisted of music composer and ERT board member Dimitris Papadimitriou, and music producers Petros Adam and Yiannis Petridis. [13] All three were members of the previous year's jury panel. As it was announced, the jury panel planned to select the Greek entry before the start of 2021, while the song would not be released before March 2021. [13]

Songwriters Dimitris Kontopoulos, the production team Arcade and Sharon Vaughn, [14] submitted at least four potential entries to ERT for consideration. [15] [13] On 18 December 2020, an Instagram post by Stefania on the official account of the Eurovision Song Contest revealed the name of one of the song candidates, "Adrenaline". [16] [17] Three weeks later on 7 January 2021, "Last Dance" was announced as the title of selected song, [14] [18] with its release set for 10 March. [19]

Promotion

To promote the entry, a music video was released on 10 March, ahead of the song's general release later that evening. [20] It aired during a dedicated show on ERT's over-the-top media service ERTFLIX. [21] Directed by Kostas Karydas, the video was filmed in Athens and features elements of Greek mythology. [22]

Stefania was also interviewed by Greece's celebrity magazine Gala alongside her uncle, actor Yannis Stankoglou, [23] and was featured in a photoshoot in Hello! Greece, talking about her upcoming performance to both magazines. [21] In early May, she appeared on ERT1's show Our Best Easter where she performed an acoustic version of "Last Dance" accompanied by piano. [24] The acoustic version was later performed on the 9 May "Eurovision Night" episode of the Greek version of Your Face Sounds Familiar , where she sang alongside Dimitris Kontopoulos on the piano. [25]

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 took place at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and consisted of two semi-finals held on the respective dates of 18 and 20 May, and the final on 22 May 2021. [26] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests as determined by the contest's televoting partner Digame. [27] The semi-final allocation draw held for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 on 28 January 2020 was used for the 2021 contest; Greece was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 20 May 2021, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show. [28] Once all the competing songs for the 2021 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Greece was set to perform fourth, following the entry from Czech Republic and preceding the entry from Austria. [29] The two semi-finals and the final were televised in Greece on ERT with commentary by Maria Kozakou and Giorgos Kapoutzidis. [30]

Performances

A green screen was used for the performance of "Last Dance" on stage. Stefania Liberakakis - Last Dance - Eurovisie Songfestival.jpg
A green screen was used for the performance of "Last Dance" on stage.

Fokas Evangelinos served as the artistic director for the entry, responsible for its stage presence. [31] The performance featured Stefania in purple amongst a green screen which removed the bodies of her four dancers leaving them as empty white suits, an arrangement which created a marked difference between what television and online viewers saw versus the limited live audience. [32] The dancers included George Papadopoulos (stage director for the Greek entry at the 2014 Contest), [33] Nikos Koukakis, Markos Giakoumoglou and Costas Pavlopoulos. [34] Stefania's outfit was designed by Greek fashion designer Vrettos Vrettakos, who had previously worked with Beyoncé as well as Eurovision alumni Eleni Foureira and Helena Paparizou. [23] Technical rehearsals for the performance took place the week prior to the contest, on 10 and 13 May 2021. [35]

The second semi-final was held on 20 May and Greece was the ninth country of the ten to be announced as having qualified for the final. [36] It was later revealed that the entry placed sixth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 184 points. [37] Soon after, the EBU posted the running order for the final, placing Greece in position 10, following United Kingdom and preceding Switzerland. [38] At the close of voting for the final, held on 22 May, "Last Dance" placed 10th in the field of 26, receiving 170 points. [39]

Voting

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. [40] The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form. [41] [42] Greece's jury consisted of Adam Tsarouchis, Athena Konstantinou, Fotis Sergoulopoulos, Ioannis Vasilopoulos, and Xenia Ghali. [41] [42] In the second semi-final, Greece placed 6th with a total of 184 points, thus qualifying for the final. The performance received 80 televoting points, which included the maximum 12 awarded by Moldova. The jury points added to 104, including 12 from France and Poland. [43] In the final, Greece placed 10th with 170 points, with two sets of 12 points from Cyprus (jury and televote), one set each from Georgia (televote) and France (jury). Over the course of the contest, Greece awarded both sets of 12 points from its jury and televote respectively to Moldova in the second semi-final and to Cyprus in the final. [37] [39] Manolis Gkinis served as Greece's spokesperson for the voting portion of the final, announcing the country's jury vote. At 10 years old, the actor from the ERT series Ta kalytera mas chronia became the youngest spokesperson in contest history to this point. [44] Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Greece in the second semi-final, as well as by the country in the final.

Points awarded to Greece

Points awarded by Greece

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Greek jury: [41] [42]

Detailed voting results from Greece (Semi-final 2) [37]
DrawCountryJuryTelevote
Juror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror ERankPointsRankPoints
01Flag of San Marino.svg  San Marino 3372221092
02Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 99491310113
03Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 155141137415
04Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
05Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 148151241314
06Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 7761099216
07Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 21111112112
08Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 113106104765
09Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 51257158374
10Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 810913141411
11Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 10638756210
12Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 6481486583
13Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 422553856
14Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 11161615161638
15Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 1214123121212
16Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 131113461147
17Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 161511161115101
Detailed voting results from Greece (Final) [39]
DrawCountryJuryTelevote
Juror AJuror BJuror CJuror DJuror ERankPointsRankPoints
01Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 33121112112
02Flag of Albania.svg  Albania 1211129101747
03Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 921213191522
04Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 1410141238318
05Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 412816792101
06Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 869845683
07Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 1719221241619
08Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 13161812171916
09Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom 23231522212424
10Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
11Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 1115317161474
12Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 2141618151311
13Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 21182024112023
14Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 5564321021
15Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 24252419222520
16Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 19171925182256
17Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 625593812
18Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania 20224781113
19Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 1671723210165
20Flag of France.svg  France 1131013146538
21Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 108111061292
22Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 22202214202114
23Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 25242520132325
24Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 15113151274210
25Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1892311251815
26Flag of San Marino.svg  San Marino 747654717

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Supergirl (Stefania song)</span> 2020 single by Stefania

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