Eurovision Young Dancers Competition Is Back
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After two years, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) once again organizes the Eurovision Young Dancers competition – Eurovision Young Dancers 2015. It is a biennial event aimed at talented young solo dancers aged between 16 and 21. This year the event will be held on June 19th in the New Theatre in Pilsen, Czech Republic, which will thus host the competition finals. National round of the competition takes place on February 8th in Prague, deadline for Czech participants is on January 31st.Eurovision Young Dancers Competition 2015, organized by the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), is a biennial event open to solo dancers aged between 16 and 21. Via European public broadcasting corporations this international event offers talented young dancers from different genres a great opportunity for the start of their international careers. The Czech Republic – thanks to Czech Television – participates in this prestigious event for the fourth time, this time as the host.
The winner of the most recent year of the competition, which was held in 2013 in Gdansk, Poland was a talented Dutch dancer Sedrig Verwoert. The competition finals was watched by TV viewers across Europe. This year's event will be held in the New Theatre in Pilsen on June 19th, 2015. The deadline for applications is on January 31st, 2015, national round of the competition will be held on February 8th, 2015 in Prague (the venue is to be confirmed by the Czech Television). Young dancers from conservatories, dance studios and schools all across the Czech Republic are welcome to take part in the interdisciplinary competition. The act can be either classical, modern or contemporary dance, or street dance related techniques. Performances of the contestants will be evaluated from both the technical and interpretive point of view by a professional five-member jury that will pick two superfinalists from the national round to represent the Czech Republic. Choreographer Cameron MacMillan, who works in Britain, will then choose one of these acts for the European finals.
In the final week hosted by the Czech Television, the finalists will rehearse together an original choreography, in which each of them gets a solo part. After that a three-member international jury will select in live broadcast the best two acts, one of whom will be the overall winner.
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