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Uwe Meusel, together with other authors, has written the first volume of “The Sound of Tap”: The Swing Years (1926-1945), an English-language book about audible and predominantly European tap dance history (with 235 musical examples).

For the last time, the 2023 World Championships took place in Riesa / Germany (since 1999), which caused sentimental feelings among many. As always, everything was very well organized. The competition from 20 countries / 5 continents was great. Switzerland was represented by about 100 dancers, who arrived for the the first time in a while with a united SwissTap outfit. The mood among the Swiss was great and the […]

The Swiss delegation has achieved very good results at the European Tap Dance Championships in Prague (June 10 & 11, 2022). SwissTap congratulates all dancers for this great performance: Children, Solo female: Lynn Gänsicke, 4th place Junior 1, Solo male: Oliver Schüpbach, 2nd place Junior 2, Solo male: Edwin Berchtold, 4th place Junior 2, solo female: Federica Barbieri, 2nd place Junior 2, duo: Edwin Berchtold & Federica Barbieri, 2nd place […]

The registration for the Swiss Tap Dance Championship 2021 in Winterthur is online.

This is the key moment in the life of any association! The SwissTap General Assembly will take place virtually (via Zoom) on 21 March 2021 at 10 a.m. The General Assembly is the big annual meeting to which the members of the association are invited but to which external persons can also participate. However, please note that external persons, donor members and individuals under 16 years do not have the […]

2020 IDO World Tap Dance Championships: As can be read on IDO’s website and in the official letter from Michael Wendt, there will be no “physical” championships this year. However, a virtual event is scheduled to take place on Saturday November 28 at 8 p.m More information: – World Tap Dance Championships website: http://www.tapdance-worldchampionships.com/ – IDO’s official letter: http://www.tapdance-worldchampionships.com/downloads/200608-Updated-information-for-IDO-in-Riesa-Dancers.pdf Swiss Dance Award 2021: The first edition of the event has […]

Due to the international pandemic situation of COVID-19 and the national measures and recommendations of the Federal Council and the BAG, SwissTap has decided, after analysing all possible scenarios, to cancel all events until the end of September including the Swiss Championship. Furthermore, taking into account the opinions of the active championship dance schools, the Board has decided not to organise either a physical or a virtual Swiss championship in […]

Currently, SwissTap expects that the Tap Dance World Championship will take place in Riesa from 24th to 28th November 2020. For all dancers interested in participating in the World Championship 2020, we ask the respective dance schools to register all tap numbers on the SwissTap website from June 1 to August 22. After the registration deadline of August 22nd, the SwissTap board will evaluate if, how many and which categories […]