Eurovision Dance Contest 2007

Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
Dates
Final	1 September 2007
Host
Venue	BBC Television Centre, London, United Kingdom
Presenter(s)	Graham Norton Claudia Winkleman
Host broadcaster	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Interval act	Enrique Iglesias
Participants
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
Participation map      Participating countries
Vote
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
Eurovision Dance Contest
2007 • 2008►

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 and Portugal, who received both 74 points.

Production

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.

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. 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.

As well as those countries that took part, Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, Iceland, Israel and Macedonia also broadcast the contest despite not taking part in it, with possibility to join it in 2008.

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.

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	Dance Styles	Place	Points
01	Switzerland	Denise Biellmann & Sven Ninnemann	Paso Doble and Swing	16	0
02	Russia	Mariya Sittel & Vladislav Borodinov	Rumba and Paso Doble	7	72
03	Netherlands	Alexandra Matteman & Redmond Valk	Cha-Cha-Cha and Rumba	12	34
04	United Kingdom	Camilla Dallerup & Brendan Cole	Rumba and Freestyle	15	18
05	Austria	Kelly & Andy Kainz	Jive and Paso Doble	5	74
06	Germany	Wolke Hegenbarth & Oliver Seefeldt	Samba dance and Freestyle	8	59
07	Greece	Ourania Kolliou & Spiros Pavlidis	Jive and Sirtaki	13	31
08	Lithuania	Gabrielė Valiukaitė & Gintaras Svistunavičius	Paso Doble and Traditional Lithuanian Folk Dance	11	35
09	Spain	Amagoya Benlloch & Abraham Martinez	Cha-Cha-Cha and Paso Doble	10	38
10	Ireland	Nicola Byrne & Mick Donegan	Jive and Fandango	3	95
11	Poland	Katarzyna Cichopek & Marcin Hakiel	Cha-Cha-Cha and Showdance	4	84
12	Denmark	Mette Skou Elkjær & David Jørgensen	Rumba and Showdance	9	38
13	Portugal	Sónia Araújo & Ricardo Silva	Jive and Tango	5	74
14	Ukraine	Yulia Okropiridze & Illya Sydorenko	Quickstep and Showdance	2	121
15	Sweden	Cecilia Ehrling & Martin Lidberg	Paso Doble and Disco Fusion	14	23
16	Finland	Katja Koukkula & Jussi Väänänen	Rumba and Paso Doble	1	132

Scoreboard

The following 16 countries took part, and received the scores shown below.

		Voters
			Russia	Netherlands	United Kingdom		Germany	Greece	Lithuania	Spain	Ireland	Poland	Denmark	Portugal		Sweden	Finland
Contestants	Switzerland
	Russia			3	10	3	7		6	4	5	4		8	12		10
	Netherlands	5				7	2	12									3
	United Kingdom							3	5		7		3
	Austria	7	3	5	2		10	2	3	3	4	6	8	5	5	4	7
	Germany	10	5	6		10				7		5	7	6	1	2
	Greece	2	4	1	5	4	5		4			2	1	2		1
	Lithuania		1		6			4			12	1		1	6	3	1
	Spain	6	2	2				7						12	4		5
	Ireland	1	10	7	8	6	3	1	8	5		10	12	3	8	7	6
	Poland	4	8	4	7	8	12		1	6	10		4		10	10
	Denmark					1	1	6	7	2	3			4	2	8	4
	Portugal	12	6	8	3	2	8	8	2	12			2		3	6	2
	Ukraine	3	12	10	12	5	6	5	12	8	6	12	6	7		5	12
	Sweden									1	1	7	5				8
	Finland	8	7	12	4	12	4	10	10	10	8	8	10	10	7	12
THE TABLE IS ORDERED BY APPEARANCE

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

International broadcasts and voting

Voting and spokespersons

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

1. Switzerland – Cécile Bähler
2. Russia – Like Kremer
3. Netherlands – Marcus van Teijlingen
4. United Kingdom – Kirsty Gallagher
5. Austria – Peter L. Eppinger
6. Germany – Alice Kessler and Ellen Kessler
7. Greece – George Amyras
8. Lithuania – Lavija Šurnaitė-Kairienė
9. Spain – Jesús Álvarez
10. Ireland – Pamela Flood
11. Poland – Ewelina Kopic
12. Denmark – Louise Wolff
13. Portugal – Marta Leite de Castro
14. Ukraine – Svetoslav Vlokh
15. Sweden – Ulrica Bengtsson
16. Finland – Johanna Pirttilahti

Commentators

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.

• Switzerland – Bernhard Thurnheer (SF), Jean-Marc Richard (TSR), Sandy Altermatt (RTSI)
• Russia – Anastasia Zavorotnyuk and Stanislav Popov (VGTRK)
• Netherlands – Lucille Werner and Cor van de Stroet (Nederland 1)
• United Kingdom – Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli (BBC One)
• Austria – Andi Knoll and Nicole Burns-Hansen
• Germany – Peter Urban and Markus Sonyi (Das Erste)
• Greece – None (NET)
• Lithuania – Beata Nicholson and Virginijus Visockas
• Spain – Beatriz Pécker and Joana Subirana (TVE1)
• Ireland – Michael Flatley and Gillian Norris
• Poland – Artur Orzech and Zbigniew St. Zasada (TVP2)
• Denmark – Nicolaj Molbech and Camilla Miehe-Renard (DR1)
• Portugal – Isabel Angelino and Jorge Gabriel (RTP1)
• Ukraine – Timur Miroshnychenko and Oleksandra Myshko (Pershyi Natsionalnyi)
• Sweden – David Hellenius and Tony Irving (TV4)
• Finland – Sirpa Suutari-Jääskö and Jaana Pelkonen (YLE TV2)
• Belarus (Non participating country) – Dmitry Karas and Vladimir Parakhnevich
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Non participating country) – Dejan Kukriñ
• France (Non participating country) – Sylvie Guillem and Julien Lepers (France 3)
• Iceland (Non participating country) – Eva Maria Jonsdottir

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