Eurovision Young Dancers 1991

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. 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. Template:Esccnty made their début (making this the first Eurovision event to feature a former Warsaw Pact country ahead of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest), while Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty chose not to send an entry. 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.

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Location

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Helsinki City Theatre

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

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.

During the interval a documentary by Finnish journalist Template:Ill about the early stages of the competition and the dancers who did not reach the final was broadcast.

Results

Preliminary round

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.

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

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	TVE	Amaya Iglesias	Variations from "La Grisi"	L. de Ávila	1
	Template:Esc	FR3	Emmanuel Thibault	La Sylphide	F. Taglioni	2
	Template:Esc	DR	Johan Kobborg	La Sylphide	A. Bournonville	3
	Template:Esc	BNT	Diliana Nikiforova	The Sleeping Beauty	M. Petipa
	Template:Esc	ZDF	Celia Volk	Le Corsaire	M. Petipa
	Template:Esc	NOS	Boris de Leeuw	Prelude to a Kis	P. de Ruiter
	Template:Esc	SVT	Kim Saveus	Le Corsaire	M. Petipa
	Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Sarah Locher	The Sleeping Beauty	M. Petipa

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:

• Template:Flagu – Jorma Uotinen (Head of Jury)
• Template:Flagu – Josette Amiel
• Template:Flagu – Frank Andersen
• Template:Flagu/Template:Flagu – Template:Ill
• Template:Flagu – Peter Van Dyk
• Template:Flagu – André-Philippe Hersin
• Template:Flagu – Heinz Spoerli
• Template:Flagu – Gösta Svalberg
• Template:Flagu – Víctor Ullate

Broadcasting

The 1991 Young Dancers competition was broadcast in 17 countries including Austria and Canada. 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	RTBF	Template:Efn	Benoît Jacques de Dixmude
Template:Flagu	BNT
Template:Flagu	CyBC	RIK
Template:Flagu	DR	DR TVTemplate:Efn	Niels Oxenvad
Template:Flagu	YLE	TV1
Template:Flagu	Template:Efn		Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	ZDFTemplate:Efn
Template:Flagu	RAI
Template:Flagu	NOS	Nederland 3	Boris de Leeuw
Template:Flagu	NRK
Template:Flagu	RTP
Template:Flagu	TVE
Template:Flagu	SVT	Kanal 1	Jacob Dahlin
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	Template:Ill
			Template:Ill
Template:Flagu	JRT	TV Beograd 1Template:Efn
		HTV 1Template:Efn

Broadcasters in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Template:Flagu	ORF	FS2Template:Efn
Template:Flagu	CBC

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 1991