Eurovision Young Dancers 1989

Eurovision Young Dancers 1989;
Dates
Final	28 June 1989
Host
Venue	Palais des Congrès, Paris, France
Presenter(s)	Zizi Jeanmarie and Alain Duault
Host broadcaster	France Régions 3 (FR3)
Participants
Number of entries	17
Debuting countries	Cyprus; Portugal
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Vote
Voting system	A professional jury awarded 2 prizes and 2 special prices for classical dance and contemporary dance
Eurovision Young Dancers

The third Eurovision Young Dancers Competition was held in the Palais des Congrès of Paris, France the 28 June 1989 at 20:30 CET.

The participant countries could send one or two dancers, male or female, that could not be older than 19.

Each dancer was free to participate in any of these 2 categories: classical dancing or contemporary, modern or jazz dancing.

The 1989 Young Dancers competition was broadcast in 20 countries including Jordan and Bulgaria.

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'.^[2]

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. Once all the jury votes have been counted, the two participants which received the highest total of points progress to a final round. The final round consists of a 90-second 'dual', were each of the finalists perform a 45-second random dance-off routine. The overall winner upon completion of the final dances is chosen by the professional jury members.^[2]

Jury Panel

Roland Petit (Head of jury)
Frank Andersen
Paolo Bortoluzzi
Oscar Araiz
Igor Eisner
John Neumeier
Ekaterina Maximova
Heinz Spoerli
Vladimir Vasiliev

Winners and Remaining Finalists

Due to time restrictions, a semifinal was held to select the performers for the final.^[3]

Prize	Country	Name
Contemporary Dance Prize	France	Agnès Letestu
Classical Ballet Prize	United Kingdom	Tetsuya Kumakawa
Jury's special prize (Classical)	Switzerland	Christina McDermott
Jury's special prize (Contemporary)	Spain	María Giménez & Igor Yebra
-	Belgium	Géraldine Boussart
-	Denmark	Rachel Hester & Martin Vedel
-	Finland	Petri Toivanen
-	Netherlands	Gaby Baars & Léon Pronk
-	Sweden	Marie Lindqvist
-	West Germany	Patrick Becker
-	Italy	Danilo Mazzota
-	Cyprus	Hélène O'Keefe
-	Canada	Cherice Barton
-	Yugoslavia	Dino Baksa
-	Portugal	Ana Lacerda
-	Norway	Hilde Olsen
-	Austria	Jürgen Wagner