30 years of IDO World Tap dance Championships
“ Outlook 2000 - USA and Canada are in the forefront. For many years now, the American and Canadian teams have dominated Tap Dance. This is due mainly to the fact that training begins at a very young age in both countries. Despite that many other nations are constantly improving and catching up and the talent is getting stronger and stronger every year, which is good for the audience as well as for Tap Dance itself. Europe can catch up For many years the Slovenian dancers have been improving under the tutelage and guidance of the Slovenian Tap Dance expert, Mr. Jadran Živkovic . The Swiss, Germans, Hungarians, Russians, Czechs, Italians and British have made great strides forward with their dancers training and choreography. Young choreographers like Mr. Laszlo Bobis from Hungary are instilling that wonderful competitive spirit among their dancers. The Future It is expected that many more countries such as Australia will be competing next years, where plans are on the drawing board for one of the largest "Dance Festivals" in Europe to take place in Riesa in conjunction with the World Dance show and Tap dance Championships .” 34
And here ended Bill Fowler’s text in 2000.
And now it is very interesting to see how the IDO World Tap dance Championships have developed seeing a lot of “new” countries comi ng up into the finals and gaining “Gold -Silver - Bronze”. And everboy reading the flowing pages can make up their minds if Bill was right with his foreseeing…….
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B. Fowler † - history of tap
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