HISTORY OF IDO WORLD TAP DANCE

30 years of IDO World Tap dance Championships

Photo 63 - The Top-Three from left: Pavel Hrubec (Czech Republic) 3. - Fabrice Martin (Switzerland) 1. - Bernd Paffrath (Germany) 2) - video scan

1995 saw the first IDO Tap Dance Formation Championships. The Gold Medal Winner was a formation from New Haven, Connecticut, under the direction of and choreographed by Gloria Jean Cuming . This event was under the patronage of the German Princess of Russia”. 11

Photo 64 - These six Tap dance Formations initiated the very successfull IDO World Tap dance Championships for Formations - in Dresden, Germany 1995 - from left: SMOKEY SOCKS (Germany) - GLORIA JEAN DANCERS (USA), KAZINA (Slovenia), SWISS TAP DANCERS (Switzerland) - PENGUIN TAPPERS (Germany) - MATHEW CLARK’S TAP ACADEMY (USA) - video scan

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B. Fowler † - history of tap

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