The Eurovision Young Dancers 2005 was the eleventh edition of the

Eurovision Young Dancers The Eurovision Young Dancers (), often shortened to EYD, or Young Dancers, was a biennial dance competition, organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and is broadcast on television throughout Europe. Thirty-seven countries have taken pa ...

, held at the National Theatre in

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on 24 June 2005. Organised by the

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(EBU) and host broadcaster

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(TVP), dancers from ten countries participated in the televised final. A total of thirteen countries took part in the competition. For this contest, a week of dance master classes replaced the semi-final round in order to select the finalists. , , and decided not to participate. The non-qualified countries were , and .

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of Netherlands won the contest, with host country Poland and Belgium placing second and third respectively. The next edition would eventually be held in , following cancellations in 2007 and 2009.

Location

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was the host venue for the 2005 edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers. It was founded in 1765, during the

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, by that country's last

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. The theatre shares the Grand Theatre complex at the Theatre Square in Warsaw with another national venue, the Poland's National Opera.

Format

The format consists of dancers who are non-

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and between the ages of 16–21, competing in a performance of dance routines of their choice, which they have prepared in advance of the competition. All the acts then take part in a choreographed group dance during 'Young Dancers Week'. Jury members of a professional aspect and representing the elements of

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, and

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dancing styles, score each of the competing individual and group dance routines. The overall winner upon completion of the final dances is chosen by the professional jury members. Ocelot - Acrobatic Dance Theatre performed as the interval act.

Results

Preliminary round

The semi-final round was replaced by a week of dance master classes. Florence Clerc, Irek Mukhamedow,

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and Piotr Nardelli were the dance teachers selected to work with the participants and choose the 10 finalists. The following countries failed to qualify.

Final

Awards were given to the top three countries. The table below highlights these using ''gold, silver, and bronze''. The placing results of the remaining participants is unknown and never made public by the European Broadcasting Union. Choreography: Mateusz Polit

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following: * –

Maya Plisetskaya Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (russian: link=no, Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she he ...

(Honorary Head of the Jury) * –

Irek Mukhamedov Irek Dzhavdatovich Mukhamedov OBE (russian: Ирек Джавдатович Мухамедов: tt-Cyrl, Ирек Җәүдәт улы Мөхәммәтев; born 8 March 1960), is a Soviet-born British ballet dancer of Tatar origin who has danced ...

(President of the Jury) * –

Krzysztof Pastor Krzysztof Pastor (born 17 December 1956 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish dancer, choreographer and ballet director. He was resident choreographer with the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam from 2003 to 2017, director of the Polish National Ballet ...

* / – * –

Jorma Uotinen Jorma Leo Kalevi Uotinen (born 28 June 1950 in Pori) is a Finnish dancer, singer and choreographer. As a dancer and choreographer, Uotinen has worked both in many dance groups, both in and outside of Finland, since 1970. He has received many Fi ...

* – Emil Wesolowski

Broadcasting

The 2005 Young Dancers competition was broadcast in at least 14 countries.

References

External links

* {{Eurovision Young Dancers Eurovision Young Dancers by year 2005 in Poland June 2005 events in Europe Events in Warsaw