This is the polka chinata, or crouched polka, a nearly defunct Bolognese folk dance. Or rather it is the polka chinata as presented in “Save the Last Dance for Me,” a work by the Italian ...

The roots of liscio lie in the fusion of local folk traditions with imported European ballroom dances: in the aftermath of ...

is originally a therapeutic dance with mythical roots that is now danced as an Italian folk dance on the Italian peninsula of Salento in southern Apulia. The name comes from the Italian word ...