Eurovision Dance Contest

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Countries that participated in the contest:

  Entered at least once

  Never entered, although was eligible to do so

  Entry intended or initially expressed

The Eurovision Dance Contest was an international ballroom dancing competition which was organised by the European Broadcasting Union and the World DanceSport Federation.

Format

Each country had one pair of dancers, each pair performing a dance in which the cultures of the individual countries could be showcased to the rest of Europe. In addition to being judged by a panel of dance experts, European audiences could cast their vote for their favourite couple via telephone or text messaging to determine winner of the competition.

2007 Contest

The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was hosted in London, United Kingdom. Each couple performed two 1 minute 30 seconds dances: the first dance was a ballroom or Latin dance while the second was a freestyle dance. The event was hosted by Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman.

The viewers from each country (except for Greece, who used a jury) were able to vote for their favorite entries. The ten favorite entries from each countries televote were given a set of points, with 12 points going to the most voted entry and 1 point going to the 10th.

Participants

R/O	Country	Dancers	Dance Styles		Points	Place
			Dance 1	Dance 2
01	Switzerland	Denise Biellmann and Sven Ninnemann	Paso Doble	Swing	0	16th
02	Russia	Mariya Sittel and Vladislav Borodinov	Rumba	Paso Doble	72	7th
03	Netherlands	Alexandra Matteman and Redmond Valk	Cha-Cha-Cha	Rumba	34	12th
04	United Kingdom	Camilla Dallerup and Brendan Cole	Rumba	Freestyle	18	15th
05	Austria	Kelly and Andy Kainz	Jive	Paso Doble	74	5th
06	Germany	Wolke Hegenbarth and Oliver Seefeldt	Samba	Freestyle	59	8th
07	Greece	Ourania Kolliou and Spiros Pavlidis	Jive	Sirtaki	31	13th
08	Lithuania	Gabrielė Valiukaitė and Gintaras Svistunavičius	Paso Doble	Traditional Lithuanian Folk Dance	35	11th
09	Spain	Amagoya Benlloch and Abraham Martinez	Cha-Cha-Cha	Paso Doble	38	10th
10	Ireland	Nicola Byrne and Mick Donegan	Jive	Fandango	95	3rd
11	Poland	Katarzyna Cichopek and Marcin Hakiel	Cha-Cha-Cha	Showdance	84	4th
12	Denmark	Mette Skou Elkjær and David Jørgensen	Rumba	Showdance	38	9th
13	Portugal	Sónia Araújo and Ricardo Silva	Jive	Tango	74	6th
14	Ukraine	Yulia Okropiridze and Illya Sydorenko	Quickstep	Showdance	121	2nd
15	Sweden	Cecilia Ehrling and Martin Lidberg	Paso Doble	Disco Fusion	23	14th
16	Finland	Katja Koukkula and Jussi Väänänen	Rumba	Paso Doble	132	1st

2008 Contest

The Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom. Both Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman returned as the hosts.

All pairs had to include one professional and one celebrity dancer. Only one, 2 minute dance, was performed by each couple. A professional jury was introduced to the competition having approximate weight of 20% of the outcome, while the remaining 80% came from televoting. The jurors consisted of four experts from non-participating countries: Singapore, France, Germany and Slovenia.

Participants

R/O	Country	Competing dancers	Dance styles	Points	Place
01	Sweden	Danny Saucedo and Jeanette Carlsson	Cha-Cha-Cha	38	12th
02	Austria	Dorian Steidl and Nicole Kuntner	Slowfox/Jive/Hip-Hop	29	13th
03	Denmark	Patrick Spiegelberg and Katja Svensson	Samba/Tango/Paso Doble/Jazz Dance	102	6th
04	Azerbaijan	Eldar Dzhafarov and Anna Sazhina	Paso Doble/Rumba/Tango/Azeri Folk Dance	106	5th
05	Ireland	Gavin Ó Fearraigh and Dearbhla Lennon	Paso Doble/Rumba/Hard Shoe Irish Dance	40	11th
06	Finland	Maria Lund and Mikko Ahti	Tango	44	10th
07	Netherlands	Thomas Berge and Roemjana De Haan	Rumba/Show Dance	1	14th
08	Lithuania	Karina Krysko and Saulius Skambinas	Rumba/Cha-Cha/Acrobatic Elements	110	4th
09	United Kingdom	Louisa Lytton and Vincent Simone	Paso Doble/Jive/Tango	47	9th
10	Russia	Tatiana Navka and Alexander Litvinenko	Cha-Cha/Samba/Rumba/Paso Doble/Russian Folk Dance	121	2nd
11	Greece	Jason Roditis and Tonia Kosovich	Latin dances	72	7th
12	Portugal	Raquel Tavares and João Tiago	Rumba/Tango	61	8th
13	Poland	Edyta Herbuś and Marcin Mroczek	Rumba/Cha-Cha/Jazz Dance	154	1st
14	Ukraine	Lilia Podkopayeva and Sergey Kostetskiy	Jive/Ukrainian Folk Dance/Rock'n'Roll	119	3rd