The 19th-century European immigrants to Wisconsin arrived with polkas ringing in their ears. The polka, a lively couples dance in 2/4 time, had developed from folk roots and became a European popular ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y. Two dancers doing polka chinata, ...

As the horns pulse and the bass drum pops, dozens of couples work in unison to alternate their footwork and swing their bodies to the much-celebrated and interactive state dance — polka. This was the ...

He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, a polka mass at St. Boniface Catholic ...

If everyone knew how to polka, crime would be lower, people would always be friendly and Brett Favre would not be a Minnesota Viking. OK, it may not be the answer to all problems, but those who polka ...