On the rapidly emptying platform Pennsylvania's Governor Earle, in a transport of rapture, executed a few steps of the hornpipe.
They danced the sword dance, sailor hornpipe and Highland Fling.
Choreographer Cunningham, 38, learned his first fancy steps from an oldtime vaudeville performer who taught him a sailor's hornpipe in a special soft-shoe version.
Chapel Hill Philharmonia's "Musical Stories" When: Sun., Oct. 20, 3 p.m. Price: Free Children's concert features music by Beethoven & Elgar set to animation from "Fantasia 2000." Guest conductor Evan Feldman will also lead the orchestra in Copland's "Hoedown", Woods' "Hornpipe" & Strauss's "Radetsky March". Audience participation is included.
Oct. 19, 2013 - Independent Weekly