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 Luxembourg, the fifth rehearsal of the day, with “La Poupée monte le son”.
🇱🇺 Luxembourg – Laura Thorn – 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 performance keeps the spirit of the Luxembourg Song Contest (LSC) staging, with an upgrade for the bigger stage
- Laura wears an upgraded version of her LSC dress, pale pink with “corset-stylle lacing” and silver thigh boots (when she was only wearing tights in the national selection, with no shoes, and had to walk to the Rockhal press center still only wearing these).
- In the middle eight, she takes off the dress and reveal another dress, silver this time
- Laura is accompanied by five male dancers (no more female dancers in Basel), wearing the same red velvet outfit we saw at LSC.
- Luxembourg has brought a prop, in the form of a pink and red dollhouse put on the main stage, inside which Laura starts her performance. Animated hands are places inside the house too, to reposition Laura in her puppet-inspired introduction.
- The dancers interact with Laura in a “precision dance routine”, and her doll-like stiffness relaxes as the song is performed, with her movements more natural by the end.
- She leaves the house in the second verse and leads her dancers to the frame stage through the walkway
- Once on the walkway, the middle-eight has been turned, performance-wise, into a dance break
- Little has been told about LED graphics, except that they accompany the visual storytelling of the rest of the performance. The first picture published by the Eurovision accounts show that some graphics from LSC have been kept for Basel
The direction of the performance comes from the TRI.Direction team. composed of Mariia Hrygorashchenko, Nataliia Lysenkova and Nataliia Rovenska.
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!
