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esctoday.com Awards 2009
Frikar Dance Company wins Best choreography award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best choreography goes to...
- ...Frikar Dance Company of Norway
Hallgrim Hansegård, Sigbjørn Rua and Torkjell Lunde Børsheimof the Frikar Dance Company supported Alexander Rybak on stage at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 when he won both the second semi final and the grand final with his song Fairytale.
- You can find the list of all award results revealed so far this year here.
The winners
This is the second esctoday.com award for Norway this year and the third one overall. Previous awards have went to Norway for Lyricist of the year in 2008 and Best male performance in 2009. The award for Best choreography is given out for the first time this year.
Hallgrim Hansegård, Sigbjørn Rua and Torkjell Lunde are all members of the Frikar dance company whose main choreographer is also Hallgrim Hansegård. They picked up the folk-inspired choreography from the Norwegian national final showing their ability of performing acrobatic dance styles. According to their official website, "Basing on 'down to earth'- focused movement techniques FRIKAR dance company has since 2006 developed an unique environment for untamed wilderness on and off dance stages".
The complete results
Norway won this category 1% ahead of Ukraine. Greece follows in third place.
- Norway - 27.0%
- Ukraine - 26.0%
- Greece - 22.1%
- Turkey - 15.7%
- Spain - 9.3%
The winning performance
Another performance by Frikar dance company
The next award to be revealed today will be Best preview video.
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@ Robert Andresen
Oh gosh, what I meant is in terms of Alexander's performance, I loved it at first but as there was no change to the routine, it's easily forgettable and boring. I don't mean this in regards of the Frikar dance.
@ San X
Sure....
A one hit wonder that lasts,ooohhh, lets see...
at least 2-300 years. Because thats how old the Norwegian folkdance Frikars coreography are based upon.
GRATULERER FRIKAR!!!
DET ER DERE VEL UNDT!
Obviously this should have gone to Ukraine 
How can it be unoriginal when it's OUR folkdance, lol......
Should have been Ukraine. The only reason why I liked Ukraine this year.
The choreography for Norway, it's cute but I see it as a one hit wonder. It gets boring the more times you see it.
I thought that Norway are deserved winners of this, but i can't believe Ukraine came so close! Turkey were good as well i thought.
Im Norwegian and I love Frikar, but I voted for Ukraine. I think the award should have gone to Ukraine or Greece.
spains choreografy wasnt good, but was definetly better than turkish one...
All the choreography in this award was cheap, tacky and most of all so amateur. I suppose Norway was the best out of a bad choice, however they all were messy and boring and very unorginal.
what choreography? there none. what a lame winner.
I actually liked Greece's choreography... it's just a shame that the cameras were so awful this year which kept trying to show the audience and how big their stage was rather than actually filming the preformances!
Great results. Frikar is amazing.
4. Spain - 15.7%
5. Spain - 9.3%
???
Corrected now 
Spain took part 2 times in this award? xD
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