30 years of IDO World Tap dance Championships
Tap dance Championships connect people
Since the beginning in Hamburg 1991 I saw it as my job to bring the wonderful tap dancers in the different parts of the world together, to introduce them to each other and possibly to become friends. This happened when I brought Ms. Kerstin Albrecht from Germany and Mrs. Nancy Chippendale from the USA together in 2005. This started a longest time friendship. “Tap United” was initiated when Nancy and her family invited the German dancers to stay with the families of her dancers in and around her hometown North Andover, USA, together to attend great masterclasses and to form a final show for a great audience . This was definitely the begin of the four Tap dance Festivals working together with the IDO World Tap dance Championships for such a long time.
And in 2006 one fascinating result was a “tap - show” by about 50 US - and German tap dancers together on the stage. This was the begin of Tap United and later of the following festivals:
4 Tap dance Festivals have been very successfully founded deriving from the IDO-World Tap dance Championships during the years. They support the IDO Championships, and the IDO Championships support them.
Ms. Marsha Dunse and her team Ms. Linda Valjalo and her team
Wilhelmshaven (Germany)
Dubrovnik (Croatia) Odessa (Ukraine)
Mr. Oleksandr Ostanin and his team Mrs. Nancy Chippendale with her family
North-Andover MA (USA)
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