Eurovision Young Dancers 1987

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Song Contest The Eurovision Young Dancers 1987 was the second edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers, held at the Schlosstheater in Schwetzingen, Germany, on 31 May 1987. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), dancers from fourteen countries participated in the televised final. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty made their debut at the contest, while Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty competed together with a joint entry.

For the first time ever, the Canadian broadcaster CBC (an EBU associate member), joined the show with its participant, making it the only Eurovision event to feature a country from North America, and the only EBU event to feature an associate member as a participant prior to Australia's debut at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015. The participant countries could send one or two dancers, male or female, that could not be older than 20. Each entry consisted in one or two dances with no rules or limitations regarding the style. The dances could not be longer than 5 minutes (for soloists) or 10 minutes (for couples).

Rose Gad Poulsen and Nikolaj Hübbe of Denmark won the contest, with Switzerland and West Germany placing second and third respectively.

Location

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Schlosstheater Schwetzingen

Schlosstheater Schwetzingen (Schwetzingen palace theater), a court theater in Schwetzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany was the host venue for the 1987 edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers.

The historic building, opened in 1753, is part of Schloss Schwetzingen and since 1952 the principal venue of the Schwetzingen Festival. It is also called Hoftheater (court theater), Hofoper (court opera), and Comoedienhaus (comedy house). The frequently applied name Rokokotheater (Rococo theater) is misleading, because it shows also neoclassical elements, added in 1762.

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'.

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.

The interval act was Template:Ill who performed Kjersti Alveberg's production Spirits.

Results

Final

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.

R/O	Country	Broadcaster	Dancer(s)	Dance	Choreographer	Result
	Template:Esc	DR	Rose Gad Poulsen and Nikolaj Hübbe	Divertissement from La Sylphide	A. Bournonville	1
	Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Frédéric Gafner	Variation from the first act of La Sylphide	A. Bournonville	2
	Template:Esc	ZDF	Stefanie Arndt	Variation from Le Corsaire	M. Petipa	3
	Template:Esc	ORF	Erika Nowak	Variation of the girl friends from Raymonda	M. Petipa and R. Nureyev
	Template:EscTemplate:Efn	Template:Hlist	Marieke Simons and Bart de Block	Blue Bird Pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty	M. Petipa
	Template:Esc	CBC	Stephen Legate	Variation from La Bayadère	M. Petipa and N. Makarova
	Template:Esc	YLE	Susanna Aaltonen and Tomi Paasonen	Pas de deux Odette/Siegfried from the second act of Swan Lake	L. Ivanov
	Template:Esc	FR3	Marie-Soizic Cabié	Aurora's variation from the first act of Sleeping Beauty	M. Petipa
	Template:Esc	RAI	Giulia Menicucci	Variation from Giselle	J. Coralli and J. J. Perrot
	Template:Esc	NRK	Halldis Ólafsdóttir	Paper Nut	J. Day
	Template:Esc	TVE	María Montserrat León	Variation from Le Corsaire	M. Petipa
	Template:Esc	SVT	Template:Ill	Franz's variation from the third act of Coppelia	K. Damianov
	Template:Esc	BBC	Paul Liburd	Under Summer	R. Cohan
	Template:Esc	JRT	Vedrana Ostojic	Variation from Le Corsaire	M. Petipa

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:

• Template:Flagu – Template:Ill (Head of jury)
• Template:Flagu – Frank Andersen
• Template:Flagu – Template:Ill
• Template:Flagu – Celia Franca
• Template:Flagu – Mary Hinkson
• Template:Flagu – Mette Hønningen
• Template:Flagu – Galina Samsova
• Template:Flagu – Heinz Spoerli
• Template:Flagu – José de Udaeta

Broadcasts

The 1987 Young Dancers competition was broadcast in at least 15 countries. 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)
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS1Template:Efn
Template:Flagu	BRT
Template:Flagu	CBC	CBCTemplate:Efn	Celia Franca
Template:Flagu	DR	DR TV	Niels Karl Nielsen
Template:Flagu	YLE
Template:Flagu	FR3Template:Efn		Charles Imbert
Template:Flagu	3sat
	ZDFTemplate:Efn		Jens Wendland
Template:Flagu	RAI
Template:Flagu	NOS	Template:Efn	Joop van Zijl and Marc Jonkers
Template:Flagu	NRK		Anne Borg
Template:Flagu	TVE
Template:Flagu	SVT	TV2
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	TV DRSTemplate:Efn
			Template:Ill
		Template:Efn
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC2	Humphrey Burton and Monica Mason
Template:Flagu	JRT	TV Beograd 2
		TV Ljubljana 2

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 1987