One-two. one-two. Senior dancers lined up in white shirts and black pants, swaying to classic polka music at Pioneer Hall at the Iowa State Fair. The first song, "Harvest Time Schottische," instantly ...

Jimi Jimi Jimi (in red vest) leads Cathryn Polsfuss during a polka dancing class at Tapestry Folk Dance Center in Minneapolis. — Photos: The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS What kind of person can coax shy ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...