Eurovision Young Dancers 1989
| Eurovision Young Dancers 1989 | ||||
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| Dates | ||||
| Final date | 28 June 1989 | |||
| Host | ||||
| Venue | Palais des Congrès, Paris, France [1] | |||
| Presenter(s) | Zizi Jeanmaire and Alain Duault [1] | |||
| Host broadcaster | France Régions 3 (FR3) | |||
| Participants | ||||
| Number of entries | 17 | |||
| Debuting countries |  Cyprus Portugal | |||
| Participation map
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| Vote | ||||
| Voting system | A professional jury awarded 2 prizes and 2 special prices for classical dance and contemporary dance | |||
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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
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Roland Petit (Head of jury) -
Frank Andersen -
Paolo Bortoluzzi -
Oscar Araiz - Igor Eisner
- John Neumeier
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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 |
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| 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 |
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