CANCELLATION OF THE SWISS CHAMPIONSHIP 2020

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 […]

ONLINE WORLD TAP DANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Qualification 2020

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 […]

THE SOUND OF TAP – a tap dance history project by Uwe Meusel

THE SOUND OF TAP presents the first 40 years of recorded tap dancing worldwide (1926-1965). Tap dancing developed along with Jazz music from Swing to Bebop and Bigband, but also touches genres like Blues, Cabaret, Musical Show and even classical music. In addition the change of recording techniques from cylinder and 78rpm records to Singles (7″) and LPs in stereo sound can be traced during this period. Some of the […]