It is the 3rd day of rehearsals for Eurovision 2024 in Malmö Arena.
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You can find the full rehearsal schedule here
8 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 2:
The schedule for today will be as follows:
| Country | Reheasal Time (CET) |
| Malta | 10:30 – 11:00 |
| Albania | 11:10 – 11:40 |
| Greece | 11:50 – 12:20 |
| Switzerland | 12:30 – 13:00 |
| Czechia | 14:10 – 14:40 |
| Austria | 14:50 – 15:20 |
| Denmark | 15:30 – 16:00 |
| Armenia | 16:10 – 16:40 |
🇲🇹 Malta: Sarah Bonnici – Loop
- Sarah Bonnici wears a sparkly silver bodysuit with some sequins.
- The LED screens will show some graphics, while the lighting will be blue, green and purple
- The performance will feature a dance break, and we can even see her lying on the floor.
- As in “MESC 2024”, we can expect a bold dance routine, as Sarah will be accompanied by 4 male dancers wearing black leather outfits. We can also recognize some salsa moves and shoulder lifts.
- The flip movement will be kept, and this time the dancers will lose their shirts.During the flip they will cover their eyes with blindfolds
- We can expect some pyro: Towards the big note in the last chorus, fireworks will take the energy higher. The performance will also be finalized with a big firework.
🇦🇱 Albania: Besa – Titan
- Besa wears a 2 part outfit: The base is a long-sleeved suit in light blue and black, decorated with golden “spagetti” decorations. It also features pointy silver shoulders.
- Besa will be accompanied by 2 backing singers and 3 female backing dancers, who will dance around her in a contemporary style. The dancers are wearing gray bodysuits, while the backing singers are wearing gray dresses
- The LED screen will present people dancing.
- The lighting will be red, blue, yellow and peach orange.
- The dancers characters are duplicated through the videoart on LED screens
🇬🇷 Greece: Marina Satti – Zari
- Marina Satti is wearing a purple short sparkly skirt, a light purple top and black heeled boots. She also has a silver necklace with orange and red decorations, and suitable earrings.
- Marina will be accompanied by dancers: 3 male and a female. They will create a demanded ethnic atmosphere. They will make some street dance with Greek elements. The dancers are wearing black outfits with white decorations. They will also wave white napkins.
- At some point, she will lie on the floor with the dancers around her
- The majority of the performance will be filmed in a one-shot technique. The camare will focus on Marina at the beginning, and this is how she will communicate with the audience
- We will have the word “Zari” printed in neon pink on the cubes LED.
- The LED floor will be designed with colorful dots.
- The LED wall will present some urban graffiti. Lighting will be diverse: From purple to blue and even tourquise.
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Nemo – The Code
- Nemo are wearing a short peral-peach short dress, with a long jacket made of pink and white fur (looks like pink fluff) and fur boots.
- The main prop is a huge white circular platform with a diameter of 2-3 meters. It is moving around its pivot.
- During the performance we can see Nemo climb this platform, slide it off, jump on it and dance on top of it.
- This performance can be described as a very challenging one, as one should be on time with the rotations of the platform while singing.
- The scene is quite dark, with neon white and blue lighting
🇨🇿 Czechia: Aiko – Pedestal
- Aiko is wearing a black outfit, where the top part is like a half transperent net.
- She is accompanied by 4 female dancers, with sparkly mesh face coverings and black outfits.
- The staging will convey the message of 5 morning/grief during the breakup stages, each one of them will be represented by one of the dancers or Aiko: deniel, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
- The Czech delegation chose to utulize the LED cubes, putting it very close to Aiko’s head at the first shot, helping to convey the intensitity derived from the text.
- The lighting is mainly red, blue and black strobes.
- Towards the end, the 4 dancers are lifting her up over their heads.
- The LED screen will present various video artwork, among them one that looks like a pop-rock concert.
- During the choruses and the bridge, we will have fire jets. They will return at the end of the performance as well
🇦🇹 Austria: Kaleen – We Will Rave
- Kaleen is wearing a a silver sparkly leotard outfit with lots of sequins.
- She is starting the performance wearing a white coat with a train, but this will be removed as the bass kicks in. Kaleen has 2 options for the white coat, the second one is more fluffy.
- Austria brought a prop to the stage: an inverted pyramid made of metal scaffolding hanging that shoots lasers. This pyramid hangs about the middle of the stage. This will create a visual similar to the warehouse from the video clip.
- Kaleen is accompanied by 4 male dancers, wearing black cargo pants, sleeveless jackets and oversized wraparound shades.
- The performance is based on a lot of dance moves, including a very contagious swirl move alongside the “rum-de-dum-dum-da”.
- There will be a use of pyro through smoke and steam jets
🇩🇰 Denmark: SABA – Sand
- Saba is wearing a simple white sleeveless-outfit, while her arms are covered with white fabric. It is a kind of pant-suit with pockets.
- She is standing on a low rectangular platform. The lighting is mainly blue and white, but in some cases it will warmer: yellow, bronze and orange.
- The staging is revealed a layer after layer, from simple lights to more flashing ones and graphics.
- Saba is equipped with sand in her pockets, and she scatters on stage while performing armography moves.
- You will see a mirrored version of Saba presented on the LED wall.
- During the performance, the floor will be filled with smoke
🇦🇲 Armenia: LADANIVA – Jako
- Jako is wearing a long white shirt with a suitable skirt, her outfit also features red fabric and some decorations. She is also wearing a retro belt and silver jewelry. Louis is wearing gray pants and a white shirt with retro silver belt. Louis is equipped with 2 wind insteruments.
- The experience might be similar to a live concert. They will be accompanied by 4 players who are wearing gay pants and jackets (one is gray, another is light blue, the other two in white).
- Louis and the 4 additional players played on different instruments during the performance: flute, drums, electric guitar, trumpet, bouzaki and more.
- The middle of the stage features a brightly coloured plinth island, which is based on like a tiny stage on stairs.
- In the second half of the performance, we can see rick video artwork, including chickens and Armenian motifs.
- The lighting comes in hot colors like yellow, gold, red and orange.
Tomorrow, an additional 8 countries will take the stage for the first time. Those are the countries which will participate in the second half of semi-final 2: Latvia, San Marino, Georgia, Belgium, Estonia, Israel, Norway and The Netherlands
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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