Each dance brought a new partner for Paul Farkas, who made sure none of the ladies left without a waltz or a polka at the Lehigh Valley Polka Travelers’ annual Christmas dance on Wednesday. There was ...

Johann Strauss Jr. wasn’t called The Waltz King for nothing. The Austrian composer wrote more than 500 waltzes, polkas and other dance pieces during his lifetime. You can get a sampling of Strauss and ...

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 ...

FOR ALL the happiness it brought to legions of happy dancers, the arrival of the polka in New York could not have come at a worse moment for James Knox Polk, who happened to be running for President ...

The 52nd annual Clarkson Czech Festival will take place Friday through Sunday in Clarkson. For the first time, a polka/waltz dance contest will be held Sunday in the air conditioned Clarkson Opera ...

CHATFIELD — Dancing shoes will be welcome when the Chatfield Brass Band presents "Music to Dance By" at 7:30 p.m. July 8 at the City Park bandshell. The band will play a mix of polkas, waltzes and ...

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 ...

A Polka Mass and Dance with the Wayne Tomsic Orchestra will take place July 24 at the SNPJ Farm, 10946 Heath Road in Kirtland. The members and friends of SNPJ Lodge 5 welcome the public to the ...

The lights dim. The band cuts loose. Couples surge toward the dance floor. It’s polka time at Blob’s Park. The family-run Jessup dance hall with the 2,000-square-foot parquet dance floor and a house ...

Approaching the entrance of the Chandelier Ballroom in the Heights, I began to hear the faint echoes of accordions and trumpets and a pang of dread surged in my spine. I was entering the world of ...