Polkamania
Sep 14, 2018
2 minutes
In the 1840s, a new dance was demonstrated for the first time in Paris. Described as having the ‘intimacy of the waltz, with the vivacity of the Irish jig’, the polka quickly became a favourite among young, fashionable people, and soon spread across the world.
The dance was said to have been invented in
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