Dansefeber is the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 version of So You Think You Can Dance

So You Think You Can Dance (U.S. TV series)

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Channel: TVNorge

TVNorge

TVNorge is a Norwegian television channel.TVNorge went on the air December 5, 1988 and was the first advertising-supported Norwegian channel. The channel was started with 50 000 NOK...

 (Norway)

Dansefeber holds auditions in major cities across Norway, looking for the top dancers in each city. All types of dance backgrounds are encouraged to audition. Salsa, ballroom

Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance refers to a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television....

, hip-hop, streetdance, contemporary

Contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

, jazz

Jazz dance

Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...

, ballet

Ballet

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 and many other types of dancers can be seen auditioning for a chance to win the grand prize.

The first season of Dansefeber

Dansefeber

Dansefeber is the Norwegian version of So You Think You Can Dance. It was broadcast on TVNorge and was hosted by Kjetil Tefke and Henriette Lien . Adil Khan was the winner in 2006 and Hanna Mjåvatn the winner in 2007....

was hosted by Kjetil Tefke and Henriette Lien and judges were Lars Undli (break dancer, one of those who brought break dance to Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

), Vibeke Sørlie (hip hop dancer and choreographer, also judge for next season), Jan Ivar Lund (jazz, contemporary and ballroom dancer and choreographer, choreographed for season 2 and So You Think You Can Dance — Scandinavia) and Merete Lingjærde (contemporary choreographer, also judge for next season of Dansefeber and So You Think You Can Dance — Scandinavia).

Male break dancer Adil Khan

Adil Khan

Adil Khan is a Norwegian dancer and actor of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Adil came to the limelight when he won Dansefeber,...

won the first season of Dansefeber.

Female contemporary/jazz dancer Maria H. Nygård came runner-up.

Male contemporary/jazz dancer Christopher Flinder Pedersen took the 3rd place.

Female contemporary/jazz dancer Tine Aspaas came 4th. (Aspaas was choreographer for season 2 of Dansefeber and So You Think You Can Dance — Scandinavia).

16 dancers were sent to the live shows after the Fever Days in Oslo

Oslo

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. Then one male and one female dancer went home every week, and at the end, we knew who won the first series of Dansefeber.

Elimination chart

Week:	Finale
Contestant	Result
Adil Khan Adil Khan Adil Khan is a Norwegian dancer and actor of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Adil came to the limelight when he won Dansefeber,...	Winner
Maria Henriette Nygård	Runner-up
Christopher Flinder Petersen Christopher Flinder Petersen Christopher Flinder Pedersen , is a Norwegian dancer, model and former member of the boyband L8R. At 13 he finished 7th in the world championships in freestyle dancing and two years later he became a member of the band L8R...	3rd Place
Tina Aspaas	4th Place

Finale

• Group routines:
  • Top 16 (without top 4): "Bite the Dust"—Pussycat Dolls
    Pussycat Dolls
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• Couple routines:

  Couple	Style	Music	Choreographer
  Tine Aspaas Christopher Petersen	Paso Doble	"España Cañí España Cañí España Cañí is a famous instrumental Spanish piece of pasodoble music by Pascual Marquina Narro . The song was written around 1925... "—Boston Pops Orchestra	Gunn Myhrengen
  Maria Nygård Adil Khan	Paso Doble	"España Cañí"—Boston Pops Orchestra	Gunn Myhrengen
  Christopher Pedersen Adil Khan	Hip-hop	"Can't Let You Go"—Fabolous Fabolous John David Jackson , better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper of African American and Dominican descent. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Part of his early popularity arose from his hit single "Can't Deny It" in 2001, from his debut...  feat. Lil Mo	Solveig Kitmitto
  Tine Aspaas Maria Nygård	Jazz Jazz dance Jazz dance is a classification shared by a broad range of dance styles. Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance. In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance—modern jazz dance—emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance...	"Believe"—The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.- Background...	Subjazz Subjazz Subjazz is a Norwegian choreographic duo consiting of Karl-Erik Nedregaard and Knut Arild Flatner that made a new dance style called Samtidsjazz, but the style was changed into contemporary in the So You Think You Can Dance - Scandinavia article....
  Maria Nygård Christopher Pedersen	Broadway Broadway theatre Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...	"All That Jazz"—Ute Lemper Ute Lemper Ute Lemper is a German chanteuse and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill.- Biography :Born in Münster, Germany, Ute Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the punk music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16...	Toni Ferraz
  Tine Aspaas Adil Khan	Broadway	"All That Jazz"—Ute Lemper	Toni Ferraz

• Solos:
  • Tine Aspaas
  • Christopher Pedersen
  • Maria Nygård
  • Adil Khan: "The Diva Dance"—Sarah Brightman
    Sarah Brightman
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• Eliminated in order:
  • Tine Aspaas
  • Christopher Pedersen
  • Maria Nygård
• Winner:
  • Adil Khan
    Adil Khan
    Adil Khan is a Norwegian dancer and actor of Punjabi/Pashtun descent. Adil came to the limelight when he won Dansefeber,...