Learn the Schuhplattler dance!

49K views · 1.8K reactions | This morning, we had visitors from Austria teach students the Schuhplattler Dance! You might see these same gentlemen at the Frankenmuth Oktoberfest this weekend! | St. Lorenz Lutheran Church & School | Facebook

The Schuhplattler Tramin from South Tyrol. | Schuhplattler Kids

👉 HOW TO DANCE BAVARIAN STYLE Dance master and Bavarian insider Katharina Mayer shows you how to learn simple traditional dances. This is how you will keep up with the Bavarians at your next folk festival visit. 🎶 Catch your dance partner and try it out! | Visit Bavaria

1.5K views · 66 reactions | Bavarian folk dance is part of Katharina Mayer's DNA. From childhood, dance was a part of her and has remained so. She passes on this passion and it is more than noticeable. Together with the Irish dancers Anne and Derwin she lived it out at our borderless cultural exchange, check it out here: https://shorturl.at/hlY01 | Visit Bavaria | Facebook

Victoria Marquardt —The Schuhplattler is a distinctive form of expression in Bavaria. The name comes from the action of the dancer striking the soles of their shoes with their hands. The 'inventors' were simple folk: farmers, hunters, and woodsmen. The exact origins and history of the dance are uncertain. During the dance, the man has the freedom to move however he likes to the tune of a folk melody called a 'Laendler! He would make different figures, leap, stomp, and slap while his partner rota