30 years of IDO World Tap dance Championships
Out of that merge between Moreno Polidori and my visions, today’s IDO was born. This enabled the World Championships in Tap Dance. When I hired the Dutch professional tap dancer Peter van Ettinger in 1990 who introduced tap dance to my dancing school in Hamburg, Germany, I was thrilled. As I mentioned, I loved tap dance and I was ready to develop that love further. In 1991, we held the first Tap Dance World Championships in Hamburg, Germany. Parallel to these events, I made contact with Mr. Vincent Bulger in New Jersey, USA. Vincent was one of the vice presidents of the WDC and president of Fred Astaire International (FADI) a tap dance organisation. Vincent introduced me to other members of the tap dance community in the USA which enabled me to attract high quality US-American and Canadian dancers to the Tap Dance World Championships. These championships would have been otherwise a mostly European competition. The Americans and also the South Africans transformed the competition into a world competition. Later, Australian, Japanese, Hong Kong and Singapore competitors expanded this inter-continentality further from Asia & Pacific as well as tap dancers from Mexico and Brazil.
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Summer 2022 Hamburg, Germany
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