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.
Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 | |
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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] |
Directed by | Nikki Parsons |
Executive supervisor | Tal Barnea |
Executive producer |
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Host broadcaster | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Interval act | Enrique Iglesias performing a medley of "Tired of Being Sorry" and "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)" |
Participants | |
Number of entries | 16 |
Debuting countries |
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Participation map
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Vote | |
Voting system | Each country awards 1–8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite acts. |
Nul points in final | ![]() |
Winning dancers | ![]() Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen |
Eurovision Dance Contest → 2008 |
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.
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]
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]
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.
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.
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] | |
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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,[5][10] 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 | 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 | 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:
N. | Contestant | Nation(s) giving 12 points |
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The order in which each country announced their votes was done in order of performance. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.[8][7]
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]
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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ORF 1 | Andi Knoll and Nicole Burns-Hansen | [8][13] |
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DR1 | Sisse Fisker and Claus Larsen | [8][14] |
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Yle TV2 | Sirpa Suutari-Jääskö and Jaana Pelkonen | [8][15] |
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Das Erste | Peter Urban and Markus Sonyi | [8][16][better source needed] |
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NET, ERT World (delayed) | Maria Kozakou and Iordanis Pavlidis | [8] |
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RTÉ One | Marty Whelan and Michelle Alonzi | [8][17] |
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LRT1 | Beata Nicholson and Virginijus Visockas | [8][18] |
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Nederland 1 | Lucille Werner and Cor van de Stroet [nl] | [8][19] |
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TVP2 | Artur Orzech and Zbigniew St. Zasada | [8][16] |
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RTP1, RTP Internacional, RTP África | Isabel Angelino, Alberto Rodrigues and Marco de Camillis | [8][20] |
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Russia-1, RTR-Planeta | Anastasia Zavorotnyuk and Stanislav Popov | [8] |
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TVE1, TVE Internacional | Beatriz Pécker and Joana Subirana | [8][21] |
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TV4 | David Hellenius and Tony Irving | [8][22] |
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SF 1 | German: Sascha Ruefer and Cécile Bähler [de] | [8] |
TSI 1 | Italian: Sandy Altermatt and Ruggero Sindico | ||
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Pershyi Natsionalnyi | Timur Miroshnychenko and Oleksandra Myshko | [8][23] |
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BBC One | Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli | [8][24] |
Country | Broadcaster(s) | Commentator(s) | Ref(s) |
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RTSH | Leon Menkshi | |
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ARMTV | Felix Khacatryan and Hrachuhi Utmazyan | |
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BTRC | Dmitry Karas and Vladimir Parakhnevich | [16] |
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BHRT | Dejan Kukrić | [16] |
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CyBC 1 | Melina Karageorgiou | |
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RÚV (40 minutes delay) | Eva Maria Jonsdottir | [16] |
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Channel 1 | No commentary | |
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MKRTV | Milanka Rašić |
Country | Viewership (in millions) | Ref(s) |
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0.68 | [16] |
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0.51 | [16] |
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0.38 | [16] |
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3.1 | [16] |
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0.36 | [16] |
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0.08 | [16] |
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~0.65 | [16] |
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0.76 | [16] |
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4 | [16] |
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1.4 | [16] |
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~2.4 | [16] |
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2.2 | [16] |
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1.4 | [16] |
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0.35 (SRF 1) | [16] |
~0.02 (TSI 1) | ||
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~0.3 | [16] |
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3.8 | [16] |
Total | ~23 | [16] |
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