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The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the inaugural edition of the

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, a dance competition co-production between the

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(EBU) and host broadcaster

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. 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

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Claudia Winkleman Claudia Anne Irena Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is an English television presenter, radio personality, film critic and journalist. Between 2004 and 2010, she presented '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' on weeknights on BBC Two. Since ...

presented the 2007 contest from the

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in London.

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performed a medley of "

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" during the interval. The first ever winners of the contest were

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Jussi Väänänen Jussi Väänänen is a competitive dancer who won the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 with his partner Katja Koukkula. Jussi and Katja started their professional career in 2000 and they are Finnish champions in competitive dance. They got 132 points ...

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.

Location

The host venue was the

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, 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.

Format

Running order

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.

Visual design

The logo of 2007 Contest features the word Eurovision written in the same way as it is on the

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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.

Host broadcaster

The contest was hosted by the BBC, and was a co-production by Splash Media – run by the developers of its successful ''

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'' format – and sports production house Sunset + Vine – with help from the

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and in association with the

. The contest was broadcast in English and French languages, although

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did not take part. Each broadcaster also had the option of providing its own commentators at the event.

Participants

The

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n broadcaster HRT had expressed an interest in taking part, but pulled out due to costs and scheduling problems. 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. 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.

Scoreboard

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

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the contest:

Spokespersons

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

Marcus van Teijlingen Marcus van Teijlingen (born 20 March 1973 in Rijnsburg) is a Dutch dance instructor and professional Latin-American dancer. His regular dance partner was Nathalie Kip. He has been working full-time as a dance instructor in Groningen since 2004. ...

Kirsty Gallacher Kirsty Jane Gallacher (born 20 January 1976) is a Scottish television presenter and model. She began her career at Sky Sports News in 1998 and hosted '' Kirsty's Home Videos'', '' RI:SE'' and '' Simply the Best'' before returning to Sky Sports ...

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Broadcasts

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.

Viewing figures

References

External links

Official Eurovision Dance Contest websiteEBU Press Release
{{Eurovision Dance Contest participants 2007 in London Eurovision Dance Contest by year 2007 in Europe 2007 competitions Events in London September 2007 events in Europe