After facing some troubles, Eurovision Young Dancers 2017 will finally take place today in the Czech capital. Eight candidates will go on stage to compete for the big prize inside Prague’s Congress Centre (PCC). TV and radio host Libor Bouček and choreographer Angeé Klára Svobodová will host the show.
Earlier this year, the Maltese broadcaster resigned to host the event with was due to take place inside Valletta’s Mediterranean Conference Centre. This decision led the European Broadcasting Union to find a new host country or the competition would be postponed until 2019. The Czech Republic was selected to replace Malta as the host country with Prague chosen as the city of this year’s competition.
The Participants
Eight young dancers from eight different countries will compete at today’s show:
- Czech Republic: Michal Vach – “Monologue” (Choreography: Michal Vach and Lenka Halašová)
- Germany: Danila Kapustin – “Desde Otello” (Choreography: N/A)
- Malta: Denise Buttigieg – “Q.W.” (Choreography: Joeline Tabone)
- Norway: Anna Louise Amundsen – “These Days” (Choreography: Tine Erica Aspaas)
- Poland: Paulina Bidzińska – “La Certa” (Choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz )
- Portugal: Raquel Fidalgo “Esquiva” (Choreography: Marius Petipa)
- Slovenia: Patricija Crnkovič “Disintegration” (Choreography: Patricija Crnkovič)
- Sweden: Christoffer Collins “Solo-X” (Choreography: Sigge Modigh)
The Contest
Each participant will perform a dance routine up to two minutes in front of a three-person expert panel, made up of Itzik Galili from Israel, Loreen‘s choreographer Ambra Succi from Sweden and Daria Klimentová from Czech Republic. The experts will score the performances, and the top two will go through to a super final, in which the two participants will perform 90 seconds of a random dance routine (45 seconds each). The professional jury will decide the overall winner.
After all eight performances, the candidates will also perform a group dance by a guest choreographer.
You can watch the show at 20:00 CET below: