Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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. That was back home in Centralia, Wash., where Cunningham grew up, the son of a country lawyer. In those days he used to tap-dance at the local Grange Hall, eventually graduated to a summer session at California's Mills College, where he met Martha Graham and agreed to join her company. In the Graham years he danced male leads in such works as Letter to the World and Appalachian Spring...