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Eurovision Young Dancers 1991

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Eurovision Young Dancers 1991
Dates
Final5 June 1991
Host
VenueHelsinki City Theatre, Helsinki, Finland
Presenter(s)
Executive producerAarno Cronvall
DirectorIzan Lewenstam
Executive supervisorFrank Naef
Host broadcasterYleisradio (YLE)
Websiteyoungdancers.tv/event/helsinki-1991 Edit this at Wikidata
Participants
Number of entries15
Debuting countries Bulgaria
Returning countriesNone
Non-returning countries
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         Participating countries     Did not qualify from the semi-final     Countries that participated in the past but not in 1991
Vote
Voting systemA professional jury chose the top 3 participants.
Winning dancers Spain
Amaya Iglesias
1989 ← Eurovision Young Dancers → 1993

The Eurovision Young Dancers 1991 was the fourth edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers, held at the Helsinki City Theatre in Helsinki, Finland on 5 June 1991.[1] Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Yleisradio (YLE), dancers from eight countries participated in the televised final. A total of fifteen countries took part in the competition. Bulgaria made their début (making this the first Eurovision event to feature a former Warsaw Pact country ahead of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest), while Austria, Canada and United Kingdom chose not to send an entry.[1] However, the Austrian broadcaster ÖRF and the Canadian CBC broadcast the event.

Each country could send one or two dancers, male or female, who could perform one or two dances.

The non-qualified countries were Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Italy, Norway, Portugal and Yugoslavia. Amaya Iglesias of Spain won the contest, with France and Denmark placing second and third respectively.[2]

Location

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Further information on the host venue: Helsinki City Theatre
Helsinki City Theatre

Helsinki City Theatre, was the host venue for the 1991 edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers.[1]

Format

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The format consists of dancers who are non-professional 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 of the acts then take part in a choreographed group dance during 'Young Dancers Week'.[3]

Jury members of a professional aspect and representing the elements of ballet, contemporary, and modern 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.[3]

During the interval a documentary by Finnish journalist Eila-Maija Mirolybov [fi] about the early stages of the competition and the dancers who did not reach the final was broadcast.[1]

Results

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Preliminary round

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Broadcasters from fifteen countries took part in the preliminary round of the 1991 contest, of which eight qualified to the televised grand final. The following participants failed to qualify.[1]

Country Broadcaster Dancer(s) Dance Choreographer
 Italy RAI Alen Bottaini Grand pas classique V. Gsovsky
 Belgium RTBF Vanessa Eertmans Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in D minor D. Sonnenbluck
 Finland YLE Titta-Tuulia Karhunen and Pasi Sinisalo Le Corsaire M. Petipa
 Portugal RTP Sonia Lima Don Quixote M. Petipa
 Norway NRK Ingrid Trøite Lorentzen Don Quixote M. Petipa
 Cyprus CyBC Hélène O'Keefe Glorianna, Hymne à la femme N. Mújaszí
 Yugoslavia JRT Ana Pavlovic Coppelia K. Damjanov

Final

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Awards were given to the top three participants. 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.[2]

R/O Country Broadcaster Dancer(s) Dance Choreographer Result
 Spain TVE Amaya Iglesias Variations from "La Grisi" L. de Ávila 1
 France FR3 Emmanuel Thibault La Sylphide F. Taglioni 2
 Denmark DR Johan Kobborg La Sylphide A. Bournonville 3
 Bulgaria BNT Diliana Nikiforova The Sleeping Beauty M. Petipa
 Germany ZDF Celia Volk Le Corsaire M. Petipa
 Netherlands NOS Boris de Leeuw Prelude to a Kis P. de Ruiter
 Sweden SVT Kim Saveus Le Corsaire M. Petipa
  Switzerland SRG SSR Sarah Locher The Sleeping Beauty M. Petipa

Jury members

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The jury members consisted of the following:[1]

Broadcasting

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The 1991 Young Dancers competition was broadcast in 17 countries including Austria and Canada.[4] Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Belgium RTBF Télé 21[a] Benoît Jacques de Dixmude [5]
 Bulgaria BNT
 Cyprus CyBC RIK [6]
 Denmark DR DR TV[b] Niels Oxenvad [7]
 Finland YLE TV1 [8]
 France FR3[c] Alain Duault [fr] [9]
 Germany ZDF[d] [10]
 Italy RAI
 Netherlands NOS Nederland 3 Boris de Leeuw [10]
 Norway NRK NRK Fjernsynet [11]
 Portugal RTP
 Spain TVE
 Sweden SVT Kanal 1 Jacob Dahlin [12]
  Switzerland SRG SSR SRG Sportkette [de] [13][14]
SSR Chaîne sportive Jean-Pierre Pastori [fr]
TSI Canale sportivo
 Yugoslavia JRT TV Beograd 1[e] [15]
HTV 1[f] [16]
Broadcasters in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
 Austria ORF FS2[g] [17]
 Canada CBC

See also

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Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ Deferred broadcast on 6 June at 20:00 (CEST)[5]
  2. ^ Delayed broadcast on 9 June at 21:50 (CET)[7]
  3. ^ Delayed broadcast on 7 June at 22:45 (CET)[9]
  4. ^ Delayed broadcast at 22:25 (CET)[10]
  5. ^ Deferred broadcast on 6 June at 8:30 (CEST)[15]
  6. ^ Deferred broadcast on 28 July at 22:40 (CEST)[16]
  7. ^ Delayed broadcast in a shortned format on 22 June at 15:00 (CET)[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Eurovision Young Dancers 1991: About the show". European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Eurovision Young Dancers 1991: Participants". youngmusicians.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Eurovision Young Dancers – Format". youngdancers.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Eurovision Young Dancers 1991". Issuu. 15 January 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Donnerstag, 6. Juni | Jeudi, 6 juin" [Thursday 6 June]. Télé-Revue (in French, German, and Luxembourgish). Vol. 47, no. 22. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. 5–11 May 1990. pp. 30–33. Retrieved 30 May 2024 – via National Library of Luxembourg.
  6. ^ "PIK". I Simerini (in Greek). Nicosia, Cyprus. 5 June 1991. p. 6. Retrieved 13 April 2024 – via Press and Information Office [el].
  7. ^ a b "Alle tiders programoversigter – Søndag den 9. juni 1991" [All-time programme overviews – Sunday 9th June 1991]. DR. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  8. ^ "Televisioon – Laupäeval, 4. juuni 1991" [Television – Saturday, June 4]. Päevaleht (in Estonian). 4 May 1991. p. 4. Retrieved 13 April 2024 – via DIGAR Eesti artiklid.
  9. ^ a b "Television". 24 heures (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland: Tamedia. 7 June 1991. p. 28. Retrieved 12 April 2024 – via Scriptorium.
  10. ^ a b c "Radio/Televisie" [Radio/Television]. Leidse Courant (in Dutch). Leiden, Netherlands. 4 June 1991. p. 15. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  11. ^ "TV Sønsdag" [TV Sunday]. Bergens Arbeiderblad (in Norwegian). Bergen, Norway. 9 June 1991. pp. 38–39. Retrieved 12 April 2024 – via National Library of Norway.
  12. ^ "TV Onsdag" [TV Wednesday]. Bergens Arbeiderblad (in Norwegian). Bergen, Norway. 9 June 1991. pp. 38–39. Retrieved 12 April 2024 – via National Library of Norway.
  13. ^ "Mercredi - 5 juin" [Wednesday - June 5]. Radio TV8 (in French). Lausanne, Switzerland: Héliographia SA. 28 May 1991. p. 34. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  14. ^ "Programmübersicht" [Programme Overview]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Zurich, Switzerland. 5 June 1991. p. 32. Retrieved 8 October 2024 – via E-newspaperarchives.ch.
  15. ^ a b "TV Beograd – Prvi program" [TV Belgrade – First program]. Borba (in Serbian). Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia. 6 June 1991. p. 31. Retrieved 28 September 2024 – via Pretraživa digitalna biblioteka.
  16. ^ a b "Hrvatska televizija – nedjelja, 28. srpnja" [Croatian television – Sunday, 28 July]. Glas Podravine (in Serbo-Croatian). Koprivnica, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia. 26 July 1991. p. 8. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  17. ^ a b "Programmübersicht – Samstag" [Programme overview – Saturday]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Zurich, Switzerland. 22 June 1991. p. 31. Retrieved 24 January 2025 – via E-newspaperarchives.ch.
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