Eurovision Young Dancers 2003

The Eurovision Young Dancers 2003 was the tenth edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers, held at the Stadsschouwburg Theatre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between 29 June and 4 July 2003.<ref name=Show>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS), dancers from ten countries participated in the televised final. A total of seventeen countries took part in the competition therefore a semi-final was held a few days before at the same venue. Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty made their début while Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty decided not to participate.<ref name=Show/>

The semi-final took place on 2 July 2003.<ref name="Details">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Each country could send one or two dancers, male or female, not older than 20. All countries except the host (Netherlands) had to take part in the semi-final.<ref name=Show/>

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Location

Stadsschouwburg Theatre

Stadsschouwburg Theatre in Amsterdam, Netherlands was the host venue for the 2003 edition of the Eurovision Young Dancers.<ref name=Show/> The building is in the neo-Renaissance style dating back to 1894, and is the former home of the National Ballet and Opera.<ref name="Dunford2010">Template:Cite book</ref>

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'.<ref name="EYD Format">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="EYD Format"/> All participants received a medal, designed by Dutch artist Template:Ill.<ref name="Details"/>

There was no interval act this year, with footage of previous contest winners and an offstage interview with Agnès Letestu, winner of the contemporary dance prize in Template:Escyr, broadcast instead.

Results

Preliminary round

Broadcasters from seventeen countries took part in the preliminary round of the 2003 contest, of which ten qualified to the televised grand final. The following participants failed to qualify.<ref name=Show/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Country	Broadcaster	Dancer(s)	Dance	Choreographer
Template:Esc	BBC	Kate Lyons	The Girl	M. Baldwin
Template:Esc	RTBF	Sébastien Tassin	Coppélia	A. Saint-Léon
Template:Esc	CyBC	Natalia Krekou	After	A. Hatjieftychiou
Template:Esc	RTVSLO	Anže Škrube	Club Hoppin	D. Popovski
Template:Esc	ARMTV	Avetik Karapetyan	Rhythm of Spirit	H. Divanyan
Template:Esc	NRK	Caroline Roca	Afraid of Beauty	P. Touzeau
Template:Esc	TVP	Jakub Greda	Solo Hip-Hop	A. Grazul and R. Ziolkowski

Final

There were two prizes given this year: one for contemporary dance (awarded to Template:Esccnty) and one for classical ballet dance (awarded to Template:Esccnty). A special "young jury" award was given as well by a group of young viewers that were in the audience, this went to contemporary runner-up Template:Esccnty.<ref name=Show/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Classical category

Country	Broadcaster	Dancer(s)	Dance	Choreographer	Place	Points
Template:Esc	NTU	Jerlin Ndudi	Le Corsaire	M. Petipa	1	938
Template:Esc	ETV	Template:Ill	Swan Lake	M. Petipa	3	800
Template:Esc	Yle	Template:Ill	Paquita	Makarova and M. Petipa	5	745
Template:Esc	ERT	Elenina Nicolaou		M. Petipa	6	716
Template:Esc	TVR	Ovidiu Matei Iancu	Swan Lake		2	831
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Sarah-Jane Brodbeck	Don Quixote		4	793

Contemporary category

Country	Broadcaster	Dancer(s)	Dance	Choreographer	Place	Points
Template:Esc	SVT	Kristina Oom and Sebastian Michanek	Light Beings	M. Ek	1	907
Template:Esc	ČT	Monika Hejduková and Template:Ill	The Twilight Of Innocence	Kodel and Vágnerová	2	856
Template:Esc	NOS	Joeri Dubbe	Perfect Skin	E. Wubbe	3	781
Template:Esc	LTV	Linda Siliņa	La Primavera	I. Lapsiņa	4	777

Jury members

The jury members consisted of the following:<ref name=Show/>

• Template:Flagu – Vladimir Vasiliev
• Template:Flagu – Susanne Linke
• Template:Flagu – Template:Ill
• Template:Flagu – Derrick Brown
• Template:Flagu – Liz Imperio

Broadcasting

26 national broadcasters<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in 23 countries transmitted the 2003 event.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Albania, Croatia, Germany, Iceland, Puerto Rico, and Serbia and Montenegro all broadcast the contest in addition to the competing countries.

Broadcasters in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	Armenia TV<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation		CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	RTBF	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	CyBC	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	ČT	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	ETVTemplate:Efn		Template:N/A	<ref name="ETV">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	Yle	TV1	Template:N/A	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	ERT	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	LTV	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	NOS	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
	NPS	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	NRK	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TVP	TVP2	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TVR	TVR 2	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	RTVSLO	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	SVT	SVT1	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	DRS	SF 1Template:Efn	Template:N/A	<ref name="SRF">https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=FZG20030705-01.2.103</ref>
	TSR	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
	TSI	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	NTU	Pershyi	Yuri Stanishevsky
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC FourTemplate:Efn	Deborah Bull	<ref name="BBC Genome">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Broadcasters in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	RTVSH
Template:Flagu	HRT
Template:Flagu	3satTemplate:Efn	<ref name="3Sat">https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TGZ20030802-01.2.32</ref>
Template:Flagu	RÚV
Template:Flagu	RTK
Template:Flagu	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	UJRT

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 2003
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2003

External links

• Template:Official website