When Sissal takes to the stage on Thursday night, 15 May in the second Eurovision semi-final for Denmark, it will be a much different staging to the one seen at Dansk Melodi Grand Prix.
Toniah Pedersen, one of the leading choreographers in the television and entertainment industry in Denmark, and Ralf Richardt Strøbech, the head of DR Music, have confirmed we will see a completely different staging for Danish Eurovision entrant Sissal.
Speaking to DR, the Danish broadcaster, Ralf Richardt Strøbech said the staging had to be scaled up, for when they make changes they have to be radical, and that the opportunity was here to do something cooler. He went on to add:
“The Eurovision stage is enormous, so we had to come up with something more than the stage show from the Danish Melodi Grand Prix, otherwise the artist would be left alone on stage.”
Toniah Pedersen explained that Sissal will appear on stage more vulnerable at first with four dancers instead of two as was previously seen, and they will illusory the hallucination but also a form of loneliness. He says:
“We will show that loneliness can be beautiful and strong. We hope it supports the understanding of the song – that the audience and viewers notice what Sissal is singing, what the song is about, what it is she is saying.”
Toniah Pedersen further explained that the physics on stage will go against the music, while the technology will go along with the music. The intention, Ralf Richardt Strøbech says, is to contrast between the slowness and the faster tempo to make you see the strength of the song’s lyrics.
Sissal won Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2025 with the song, “Hallucination”, and will represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel. She will perform 11th in Semi-Final Two on 15 May. Find out more about Sissal below:
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Image source: Alma Bengtsson / EBU | Source: dr.dk
Denmark debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957 alongside Austria and the United Kingdom. To date Denmark has won the contest on three occasions, the first being in 1963 when Grethe & Jorgen Ingmann performed “Dansevise”. Denmark won the contest again in 2000 represented by the Olsen Brothers. Their most recent victory came in 2013 when Emmelie de Forest performed “Only Teardrops”. Denmark has not been in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest since 2019.
