Eurovision Young Dancers 1991

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

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

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

Preliminary round

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

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

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.[2]

Place Country Participant Dance Choreographer
1  Spain Amaya Iglesias Variations from "La Grisi" L. de Ávila
2  France Emmanuel Thibault "La Sylphide" F. Taglioni
3  Denmark Johan Kobborg "La Sylphide" A. Bournonville
–  Bulgaria Diliana Nikiforova "The Sleeping Beauty" M. Petipa
–  Germany Celia Volk "Le Corsaire" M. Petipa
–  Netherlands Boris de Leeuw "Prelude to a Kiss" P. de Ruiter
–  Sweden Kim Saveus "Le Corsaire" M. Petipa
–   Switzerland Sarah Locher "The Sleeping Beauty" M. Petipa

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:[1]

Broadcasting

The 1991 Young Dancers competition was broadcast in 17 countries including Austria and Canada.[4]

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
 Austria ORF
 Canada CBC

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  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]

References

  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 "Jeudi 6 juin – Tele 21" [Thursday 6 June – Tele 21] (in French, German, and Luxembourgish). French: Télé-Revue. 28 May 1991. p. 13. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  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.