Many thanks to the organizers of Musikfest for expanding the dance choices at Festplatz. While many in the Allentown Swing Dance Association enjoy dancing the polka, we are glad to see other dances ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In the 1960s, it was the twist; in the ’20s, the Charleston. But these fads were mere blips on ...

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 ...

FARGO - When North High School administrators bumped "grinding" from allowable dances at this year's prom, lots of students thought outlawing the up-close-and-personal style of dancing would make ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For the past two decades, Get Hep Swing has kept old-school swing dancing going strong in Cleveland. The organization, led by champion swing dancer Valerie Salstrom, puts on popular ...

What kind of person can coax shy, diffident Minnesotans to boogie down on the dance floor? He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event ...

It may not take oom-pah-pah-precedence in Topeka this session, but some Kansans want lawmakers to declare the polka the state’s official dance. Senate Bill 158 continues an effort introduced last year ...

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 ...