Our new project is to create a space that represents a selected dance. For my dance I picked Polka. The polka originated in Czechoslovakia. The story tells that on one Sunday afternoon in 1830 a young servant girl, Anna Chadimova, gathered among other young people and she began singing and making up a dance. According to the story a Bohemian composer observed the girls dance and song and wrote down her tune and memorized the steps. This following week she apparently taught her steps to her fellow friends. The polka was introduced to the United States in 1844 by a Hungarian Army Officer, Gabreil De Karponay. It becomes popular after the World War II when Polish immigrants adopted the polka as their national dance.