What do you get if you cross a 1,000-year-old Bavarian shoe-slapping dance with an all-male Italian folk routine that was on the brink of extinction? A sweaty, joyous double-bill! When Alessandro ...

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, ...

Jud and Cathy Murray embraced as they skillfully swirled among other dance pairs Wednesday at the Crow Wing County Fair. The Brainerd couple nearing a half-century of marriage began dancing together ...

Authentic Polish dishes, polka music and Polish folk dancers drew about 400 attendees to the 29th Annual Polish American Day Sunday. The event, hosted by Polish National Association Orange County ...

Sure, some teens might fit into convenient categories – geeks and goths and jocks and such. But Becky Livermore, who will be at the Great Lakes Folk Festival on ...

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 ...

The onset of Alzheimer’s disease has stolen pieces of Oliver Koenig’s memory. Names and faces aren’t as clear as they once were, his wife, Helen Koenig, said. But there’s one thing 84-year-old Oliver ...