Chapter 1, Section 1 of The Dancing Mania is an evening-length dance theater piece based on the bizarre true story of a medieval dancing plague. In 1518, the residents of Strasbourg were stricken with ...
ON A SUMMER’S day in 1518, a woman walked out of her house in Strasbourg and started to dance energetically in the street. Apart from stolen moments for sleep, she did not stop for six days. Crowds ...
MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. On this day — July 14 — in 1518, a woman called Frau ...