Eurovision is here! Delegations have been arriving in Basel in the last few days and rehearsals started on May 3. After closing the first rehearsals to the press in 2022, the EBU has now done away with TikTok videoclips. They will instead release sets of three photographs a day after each rehearsal, as well as description of the proceedings on their official channels. As such, today, we cover yesterday’s rehearsals, from the second half of the second semi-finalists, and continue with Serbia, the seventh rehearsal of the day, with “Mila”.
🇷🇸 Serbia – Princ – First rehearsal
The following pictures have been published by the official Eurovision accounts. (Source: Alma Bengtsson, Corinne Cumming / EBU)
What happened on stage?
This description is sourced from indications given by the official Eurovision Reddit account.
- The Serbian delegation has dropped many of the elements we saw in Pesma za Evroviziju earlier this year, including the moon, the waistcoat, and the spinning dancer
- Princ is now wearing a bright red outfit
- He is accompanied by three male dancers in black
- The performance starts with Princ on the main stage (bathed in low fog), in a shadow backed by a halo of light: his three dancers dance around and with him in a precision routine, as can be seen on the first picture.
- At some point, they grab him by the legs and drag him to the frame stage
- The LED screens display and explosion of graphics and red lights during the dragging part
- In terms of pyrotechnics, the flame jets are used extensively dusing the final verse
Stay tuned for further coverage today, with the rehearsals of yesterday, and for our live coverage on the ground starting on May 10, which will include (among other things) the full dress rehearsals and the live shows, live from Basel!
