It is the first day of rehearsals for Eurovision 2024 in Malmö Arena.
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You can find the full rehearsal schedule here
7 countries will take the stage for the first time – those are the countries that have been allocated to perform in the first half of semi-final 1:
| Country | Reheasal Time (CET) |
| Cyprus | 10:30 – 11:00 |
| Serbia | 11:10 – 11:40 |
| Lithuania | 11:50 – 12:20 |
| Ireland | 12:30 – 13:00 |
| Ukraine | 14:10 – 14:40 |
| Poland | 14:50 – 15:20 |
| Croatia | 15:30 – 16:00 |
🇨🇾 Cyprus: Silia Kapsis – Liar
- Just before taking the stage, young Silia Kapsis was seen on the back stage.
- She wore a white outfit, composed of a white fabric crop top and white pants with tiny silver dots.
- On top of this, she wears a jacket, which will probably be off at a certain point of the performance.
- There are no props on stage, but you can expect a graphic video in red and green spirals to give us some summer vibes.
- The Cypriot delegation will utilize both the floor and the backdrop to show the graphics.
- Silia will be accompanied by 4 male dancers on stage, wearing a white over-sized T-shirt and black wide pants. They will pull off their shirts in the final chorus.
- The lights will be mainly blue
- It will be a high tempo energetic performance, with a dance break before the bridge.
🇷🇸 Serbia: Teya Dora – Ramonda
- Teya will wear a dark grey-purple lilac dress with black decorated sleeves featuring some silver rings on top. The lower part of the dress features a kind of trail/cape.
- The staging will be a bit similar to the one presented in “Pesma za Evroviziju 2024“, but some changes will be implemented.
- The main prop on stage will be a huge rock.
- Video art will feature clouds, lightning and stats. The setting itself will be quite dark. We will be able to see some shadows on stage. The lights will be purple, blue and white.
- Towards the end, we will be able to see a blooming ramonda flower.
- There will be a wide use of smoke on stage.
🇱🇹 Lithuania: Silvester Belt – Luktelk
- Silvester Belt chose to continue with the same outfit as the one in the national selection: It is a red leather suit. He also wears black shoes with the printing “Luktelk”.
- Silvester will also wear silver earnings and his recognized silver nose jewel
- The performance is similar to the one we’ve seen in “Eurovizija.LT 2024“. Silvester is accompanied by 4 male dancers on stage. They wear black masks that look like hoods, covering their heads.
- The lighting will be mainly red and blue, more like the one with back strobe lighting. The scene will be quite dark.
- There will be no props on stage. There will be pyro elements. In the backdrop we will be able to see a human character.
🇮🇪 Ireland: Bambie Thug – Doomsday Blue
- Bambie Thug will wear a black outfit. Her lips are colored in black lipstick, while their face is covered in white makeup, with black paint. Part of her outfit is made of black cones. They will also wear a tutu skirt. Her hair is dressed into horns.
- Underneath she wears a light blue and pink holes shirt
- They will be inside a circle of candles. Babmie will be accompanied by a bare-chested ballet dancer.
- The backdrop will feature a galaxy view in the colors blue and pink.
- Towards the end, the candle circle raises up The backdrop led will present the phrase “Crown The Witch”
- There will be a use of low level ground smoke and flame jets.
🇺🇦 Ukraine: Alyona Alyona & Jerry Heil – Teresa & Maria
- Jerry wore a khaky/off white dress with a white top, while Alyona wore a shiny dark gray coat.Jerry also wore a light blue cape that she removed during the performance.
- The staging will be different from the one in “Vidbir 2024”. The main prop on stage will be a sloppy rock.
- Jerry Heil climbs this rock platform, while the wind machine blows her hair.
- Later on, Alyona joins the stage while singing her rap part.
- Different shadows will feature on the LED and backdrop. The lighting will be mainly orange and yellow, with a special long light beam
- The performance will feature backing vocals.
- The performance will end with one head-shot, making their 2 bodies as multi-personal visual
🇵🇱 Poland: Luna – The Tower
- Luna wears a red and white outfit: It is composed of 2 parts: White short trousers with red shiny sequins and white shirt in the same design. There are 2 red cones on her shoulders and she wears red boots.
- Initially, she wore a PVC red cape with huge pointy shoulders, later on this cape was removed and we can see hear in teh white mentioned outfit.
- Luna’s eyes will be decorated with red eyeshadow and eyeliner.
- Luna appears on stage between 2 giant neon chess rooks that roll across the stage. One of them is black, and the other is white.
- She will be accompanied by 3 dancers on stage, they will appear faceless and in 3 different outfit colors: red, white and black. Luna will climb on one of those neon chess rooks.
- The backdrop will show a dark blue sky with a purple moon.
- At the peak point, she lies on the LED floor where an imaginary red horse appears, creating the effect she rides on it.
- In the final chorus, there will be a use of big firework jets filling the stage
🇭🇷 Croatia: Baby Lasagna – Rim Tim Tagi Dim
- The concept of the performance will be similar to the one presented in “Dora 2024”, with some modifications in the line-up and in the outfit.
- Baby Lasagna wears a traditional outfit: white pants, black leather shoes, the base top is white with giant frilly sleeves and some decorations. On top, he wears a bordo bolero with yellow decorations and black collar. In addition, his pants feature silver shackle chains.
- The dancers wear white and black outfits
- The performance features rich video art, neon farm animals and some dancing cats.
- Traditional dance moves were kept for the Eurovision performance as well.
- Before the techno bridge, we will have cracker fireworks (somehow reminded me of the Croatian performance at Eurovision 2023). Each chorus will feature fire jets, while the violin part will feature smoke effects.
- Croatian delegation made great use of the space suggested on stage
Tomorrow, the countries which were allocated into the second half of semi-final 2, will take the stage for the first time.
Eurovision 2024 will be held in Malmö, Sweden.
The semi-finals will be held on the 7th and 9th of May 2024, and the grand final will be held on the 11th of May 2024.
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