Eurovision Dance Contest 2007
| Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 | |
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| Dates | |
| Final | 1 September 2007 |
| Host | |
| Venue |
BBC Television Centre, London, United Kingdom |
| Presenter(s) |
Graham Norton Claudia Winkleman |
| Director | Nikki Parsons |
| Executive supervisor | Tal Barnea |
| Executive producer |
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| Host broadcaster | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Interval act | Enrique Iglesias |
| Participants | |
| Number of entries | 16 |
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| Vote | |
| Voting system | Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite acts. |
| Nul points |
 Switzerland
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| Winning dancers |
 FinlandKatja Koukkula & Jussi Väänänen |
The Eurovision Dance Contest 2007 was the 1st Eurovision Dance Contest a dance entertainment co-production between the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The first ever pan-European dance competition was held on 1 September 2007 in London, United Kingdom with the participation of 16 countries. Viewers cast their votes by telephone and SMS text message voting on each couple's two dances – the first being ballroom or Latin with the second being freestyle, with a "national" flavour. Comedian Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman presented the 2007 contest from the BBC Television Centre in London.
The first ever winner of the contest was Finland who received a total of 132 points. 2nd place went to Ukraine, 3rd to Ireland, 4th to Poland and 5th place to Austria and Portugal, who received both 74 points.
The host venue was the BBC Television Centre, White City, London, which opened in 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. It remained to be one of the largest such facilities in the world until it closed in March 2013.
The contest was hosted by the BBC, and was a co-production by Splash Media – run by the developers of its successful Strictly Come Dancing format – and sports production house Sunset + Vine – with help from the International DanceSport Federation and in association with the European Broadcasting Union.
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