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Eduardo Corrochio


 

Eduardo Corrochio (1869 - 1912) was a Spanish-born dancer who won the first Tap Dancing Championship in New York City in 1890.

Career Highlights

1890- Corrochio entered the Tap Dancing Championship in New York city. The only non-American in a field of two hundred invited participants, he defeated Henry Rogers to become the first tap dancing champion of the world.

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1894- Corrochio successfully defended his title at another Tap Dancing Championship in Chicago Illinois. Three hundred participants gather this time, twenty of them non-Americans, mostly from Britain and Germany.

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