Meet the 'polka dancing pirate' getting people on their feet in the US

Jimi Jimi Jimi (in red vest) leads Cathryn Polsfuss during a polka dancing class at Tapestry Folk Dance Center in Minneapolis. — Photos: The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

What kind of person can coax shy, diffident Minnesotans to boogie down on the dance floor?

He’s a pirate and he calls ­himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate.