Interval acts are a series of non-competitive performances that take place after all competing artists have performed their entries. They serve as a continuity for the show during the voting segment and while the votes are being tallied, as well as a platform for local music and dance groups, or for prominent artists to perform popular songs or promote new releases.
Riverdance is one of the most prominent interval act that gained international popularity following its appearance in the 1994 contest.
1950s[]
1956[]
- Les Joyeux Rossignols
- Les Trois Ménestrels
1957[]
N/A
1958[]
Metropole Orkest
1959[]
N/A
1960s[]
1960[]
Eric Robinson's Orchestra
1961[]
Tessa Beaumont and Max Bozzoni
1962[]
Achille Zavatta
1963[]
Ola & Barbro
1964[]
Ballet-harlequinade
1965[]
Mario del Monaco
1966[]
Les Haricots Rouges
1967[]
Wiener Sängerknaben
1968[]
Impressions from London
1969[]
"La España diferente" film
1970s[]
1970[]
Don de Lurio Dancers
1971[]
Bunratty Castle Entertainers
1972[]
Stock footage from 1968 taken from the Edinburgh Military Tattoo
1973[]
Charlie Rivel
1974[]
The Wombles
1975[]
The World of John Bauer
1976[]
The Dutch College Swing Band
1977[]
Mr. Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Men
1978[]
Stéphane Grappelli and Oscar Peterson, Yehudi Menuhin, Kenny Clarke, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
1979[]
Shalom '79
1980s[]
1980[]
The Dutch Rhythm Steel and Show Band
1981[]
Planxty with "Timedance" danced by Dublin City Ballet
1982[]
Yorkshire Sights
1983[]
The Song Contest Ballet
1984[]
Prague Theatre of Illuminated Drawings
1985[]
Guitars Unlimited with Swedish Evergreens
1986[]
Sissel Kyrkjebø and Steinar Ofsdal
1987[]
"Ode To Joy" by Mark Grauwels
1988[]
Hothouse Flowers performing "Don't Go"
1989[]
Guy Tells
1990s[]
1990[]
Yugoslav Changes – a film about tourism in the country
1991[]
Arturo Brachetti
1992[]
A Century Of Dance
1993[]
Linda Martin performing Why Me?
Johnny Logan with the Children of Millstreet and the Cork School of Music Choirs performing "Keep Love Alive"
1994[]
1995[]
Lumen
1996[]
Beacon Burning
1997[]
Ronan Keating, Boyzone
1998[]
Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
1999[]
Dana International performing "Free"
2000s[]
2000[]
2001[]
- Aqua and Safri Duo
2002[]
- Dance performance directed and choreographed by Teet Kask (during voting)
- Annely Peebo & Marko Matvere performing "A Little Story in the Music"
2003[]
- Iļģi, Brainstorm, Marie N and Raimonds Pauls
2004[]
- ABBA: The Last Video
- Fire of Anatolia
2005[]
- Ruslana performing "The Same Star"
- Kyiv Percussion Ensemble ARS NOVA
- Anatolly Zalevskiy
2006[]
- Semi-final: Eurovision medley performed by Greek gods and goddesses; "Love Shine a Light" performed by Sakis Rouvas and Maria Menounos
- Final: "The Mermaid Song" performed by Foteini Darra accompanied by Greek dancers; "My Number One" performed by Helena Paparizou
2007[]
- Semi-final: Tsuumi
- Final: Apocalyptica
2008[]
- Semi-final 1: Metropole Orkest, Slobodan Trkulja, Balkanopolis, Novak Djokovic
- Semi-final 2: National Theatre in Belgrade performance, Lys Assia
- Final: Goran Bregović performance, Vlade Divac
2009[]
- Semi-final 1: Alexandrov Ensemble feat. t.A.T.u. with "Not Gonna Get Us"
- Semi-final 2: Igor Moiseyev Ensemble – "Folk Dances from Different Countries"
- Final: Fuerzabruta
2010s[]
2010[]
- Semi-final 1: "Human sounds" video and stage act
- Semi-final 2: A video about a boy that gets to the Eurovision venue and makes an exhibition of breakdance live on stage
- Final: A flashmob styled performance with Madcon performing "Glow", alongside live and taped footage of audiences dancing around Europe
2011[]
- Semi-final 1: Cold Steel Drummers
- Semi-final 2: Flying Steps – "Flying Bach"
- Final: Jan Delay performing "Oh Jonny" and "Klar"
2012[]
- Semi-final 1: Natig Rhythm Group
- Semi-final 2: Marija Šerifović, Dima Bilan, Alexander Rybak, Lena & Ell & Nikki performing Azeri twists of their winning entries along with Waterloo
- Final: Emin Agalarov
2013[]
- Semi Final 1: "Northern Lights"
- Semi Final 2: "Swedish Pop Voices" featuring Darin and Agnes Carlsson
- Final:
- Loreen performing "We Got The Power", "My Heart Is Refusing Me" and "Euphoria"
- "Swedish Smörgåsbord" performed by Petra Mede ft. Carola
Sarah Dawn Finer performing "The Winner Takes It All"
2014[]
- Semi Final 1: "The Ugly Duckling", interpreted by Mike Sheridan
- Semi-final 2: "Sea of Flags" performed by Jessica Mauboy
- Final: Emmelie de Forest performing "Rainmaker" with the 26 finalists
2015[]
- Semi-final 1: Short films: "Pets in Vienna" and "Australia's Contributions to Eurovision"
- Semi-final 2: Short films: "Austrian Hall of Fame" and "When Eurovision Voting Goes Wrong"
- Final: Martin Grubinger with the Percussive Planet Ensemble and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir
- Conchita Wurst performing "You Are Unstoppable" and "Firestorm"
2016[]
- Semi-final 1: "The Grey People"[Note 1]
- Semi-final 2: "Man Meets Machine"
- Final: Justin Timberlake performing "Rock Your Body" and "Can't Stop the Feeling"
Måns Zelmerlöw & Petra Mede performing "Love Love Peace Peace"
2017[]
- Semi-final 1: Jamala - 1944 (Symphonic Version) and Zamanyly
- Semi-final 2: Apache Crew - The Children's Courtyard
- Final:
- Ruslana - It's Magical
- Onuka & NAOFI - Megamix
- Jamala - I Believe In U
2018[]
- Semi-final 1: Planet Eurovision
- Semi-final 2: ESCpedia
- Final:
- Branko ft. Sara Tavares, Mayra Andrade and Dino D'Santiago
- Salvador Sobral performing Amar pelos dois (with Caetano Veloso) and "Mano a Mano" (with Júlio Resende)
2019[]
- Semi-final 1:
- Dana International: Just The Way You Are
- Kutiman: 63 Years of Eurovision Heritage, Part 1
- Semi Final 2:
- Shalva Band: A Million Dreams
- Kutiman: 63 Years of Eurovision Heritage, Part 2
- Final:
- Switch Song - Conchita Wurst (Heroes), Måns Zelmerlöw (Fuego), Eleni Foureira (Dancing Lasha Tumbai), Verka Serduchka (Toy) and Gali Atari (Hallelujah)
- Madonna: Like A Prayer, Dark Ballet and Future[Note 2]
- Netta Barzilai: Nana Banana
- Idan Raichel: Bo'ee - Come To Me
- Short film: "Tel Aviv in 3 Minutes" by Gal Gadot
2020s[]
2020[]
The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021[]
- Semi-final 1:
- Davina Michelle & Thekla Reuten - The Power of Water
- Semi-final 2:
- Ahmad Joudeh & Des Maarsen - Close Encounter of a Special Kind
- Final:
- Music Binds Us - Afrojack, Glennis Grace & Wulf
- Rock The Roof - Lenny Kuhr (De Troubadour), Teach-In (Ding-a-Dong), Sandra Kim (J'aime La Vie), Helena Paparizou (My Number One), Lordi (Hard Rock Hallelujah) and Måns Zelmerlöw (Heroes)
- Duncan Laurence - Arcade & Stars
- The Human Countdown
2022[]
- Semi-final 1:
- "The Dance of Beauty": A medley of "Horizon in Your Eyes", "Satisfaction" and "Golden Nights" performed by Dardust, Benny Benassi and Sophie and the Giants with conductor Sylvia Catasta
- Brief homage to Raffaella Carrà performed by the contest presenters
- Diodato - Fai rumore
- Semi-final 2:
- A medley of "Fragile" and "People Have the Power" performed by co-presenters Laura Pausini and Mika
- Il Volo performing a new version of Grande Amore
- Final:
- Måneskin - "Supermodel" & "If I Can Dream"
- Gigliola Cinquetti - Non ho l'età
- Mika performing a medley of "Love Today", "Grace Kelly", "Yo Yo" & "Happy Ending"
2023[]
- Semi-final 1:
- Alyosha - “Ordinary World” (with Rebecca Ferguson)
- Rita Ora - Medley of: "Ritual", "Anywhere", "I Will Never Let You Down", and "Praising You"
- Semi-final 2:
- "Music Unites Generations": Mariya Yaremchuk, OTOY & Zlata Dziunka
- "Be Who You Wanna Be" (drag performance set to a medley of "Free Yourself", "Free Your Mind", "Free" and "We Got Love")
- "School of Eurovision"
- Final:
- Sam Ryder - "Mountain" (with Roger Taylor)
- "The Liverpool Songbook": Mahmood ("Imagine"), Netta ("You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"), Daði Freyr ("Whole Again"), Cornelia Jakobs ("I Turn To You"), Sonia ("Better The Devil You Know") and Duncan Laurence ("You'll Never Walk Alone" with the presenters, opening/interval performers and Ruslana)
2024[]
- Semi-final 1:
- Johnny Logan - Euphoria
- Benjamin Ingrosso performing a medley of "Who's Laughing Now", "Kite" and "Honey Boy"
- Semi-final 2:
- Eurovision sing-along with Sertab Erener (Everyway That I Can), Helena Paparizou (My Number One) and Charlotte Perrelli (Take Me To Your Heaven)
- Petra Mede, Charlotte Perrelli, Käärijä and Sarah Dawn Finer (as Lynda Woodruff): "We Just Love Eurovision Too Much"
- Herreys - Diggiloo Diggiley (following the qualifier reveals)
- Final:
- Alcazar: "Crying at the Discoteque"
- Charlotte Perelli, Carola and Conchita Wurst: Waterloo
- Loreen: Tattoo and "Forever"
2025[]
- Semi-final 1:
- Sandra Studer, Hazel Brugger and Petra Mede: "Made in Switzerland"
- Marina Satti, Jerry Heil, Iolanda and Silvester Belt: Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi (featuring a pre-performance video message from Celine Dion)
- Jørgen Olsen: United by Music (following the qualifier reveals)
- Semi-final 2:
- Gjon's Tears, The Roop, Destiny Chukunyere and Samira Efendi performing their 2020 entries Répondez-moi, On Fire, All of My Love and Cleopatra
- Sandra Studer: Insieme: 1992 (following the qualifier reveals)
- Final:
- "The Swiss Legacy at Eurovision": Peter Reber and Marc Dietrich with their children: Io senza te; Paola del Medico: Cinéma; Luca Hänni: She Got Me; and Gjon's Tears: Tout l'univers
- Baby Lasagna and Käärijä: Rim Tim Tagi Dim vs. Cha Cha Cha and "#Eurodab"
- Nemo: "Unexplainable"