The group “Tautumeitas” (literally ‘folk girls’) has released a brief video preview of its rehearsal performance on the Eurovision stage.
The 30-second video fragment showcases the choreography and stage effects which the group hopes will find favour with the Eurovision audience and judges when they make their semi-final appearance on May 15.
“With the performance of the song “Bur man laimi” (“Bring me joy”), our goal was to bring the audience into a world that seems both ancient and otherworldly,” said the performance’s creative and visual director Artūrs Analts.
Notwithstanding the ‘ancient’ theme, the usual barrage of Eurovision audio-visual stimuli are fully on display, including strobe lighting.
The group Tautumeitas will take to the Eurovision stage in Basel in the second semi-final of the contest, on May 15. Naturally, it will be broadcast on Latvian Television.
This will be only the second time that a Latvian Eurovision entry will be performed in the Latvian language on the Eurovision stage. The previous time was at the 2004 Song Contest in Istanbul, Turkey, when “Dziesmu par laimi” (Song of joy) was performed by Ivo Fomins and Tomas Klein.
Hopes are high that Tautumeitas will improve Latvia’s generally disappointing run of form in Eurovision. In May last year, Dons represented Latvia with the song “Hollow”, finishing in 16th place. In doing so he did at least reach the final – the first Latvian act to do so since 2016.
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