Polka began as a Czech peasant dance. The basis of polka dancing is in the pattern of lightly stepping from one food to the other. This movement, derived from the Czech word “pulka,” meaning ...

A mild stroke last May has left Al Kiser with a familiar feeling from time to time on the smooth wooden dance floor of the Moose Lodge in Billings — that of two left feet. It wasn’t an excuse when his ...

After 15 years of being around a family polka band, Heather Sadowsky Faulkner says the music and dancing are a way of life. But she held off telling her future husband, Shawn, about that lifestyle.

GRAND RAPIDS -- Dancers, tune up your toes. Two upcoming church festivals will feature polka dancing contests.The first is set for Sept. 20 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 2222 Lake Michigan Drive NW.

It was a broken elbow that first got Gary Reynolds into polka dancing. “In 1980, I decided to learn how to roller skate and that lasted about four minutes,” he said. After healing and the same desire ...

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 ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — This Saturday, the Genetti's ballroom will be packed with polka dancers and players, hosted by the Pennsylvania Polkafest with a long lineup of local and national talent. It's a ...

Kansas Czech-Slovak Princess Brooklyn Webb encouraged legislators Thursday to support a bill declaring polka the state's official dance. She said the style of dance had its roots in European culture ...

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 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Have you ever danced the polka? Kansas lawmakers are working to get the polka named as the official state dance of Kansas. Originally a Czech dance, the polka spread throughout ...