WELL, SLAP MY SHOE! A LEDERHOSEN CLASSIC AND A POLKA ONLY FIVE MEN CAN DO
(Lyndsey Winship's article appeared in the Guardian, 2/28; via Pam Green; Photo:  Don't stop till you're married! … dancers in traditional clothing perform the Schuhplattler. Photograph: Westend61 GmbH/Alamy.) What do you get if you cross a 1,000-year-old Bavarian shoe-slapping dance with an all-male Italian folk routine that was on the brink of extinction? A sweaty, joyous […]