what IS hornpipe?

I'm an Irish dancer too! Who frequents the highland board...probably because I'm an ex highlander but anywhoo...

Irish horpipe is just a step pretty much, y'know like theres a certain type of music and each schools makes up their own unique step in accordance with the music/beats/counts and whatever hardshoe steps are in (or basically whatever hardshoe movements they want!)
The highland hornpipe is similar to our Traditional Sets so every school does it the same although I believe there can be a variation of steps (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong! It's been a while since I've walked this walk..lol)

So there y a go....hope that helped!

there are set steps for every dance, so ycan choose which of the set steps you want to do. the hornipe (actually called the sailors hornpipe) is representing the sailors in the brittish army, and we do alot of moves that resemble things that they do (i.e. pulling ropes, looking for land) hope this helped!

thanks for the explaination!