When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th century Germany, dozens of ordinary people claimed to be infected by the ...

In the summer of 1518, a quiet street in Strasbourg became the centre of one of history’s strangest mysteries. A woman stepped into the open air and began dancing. There was no festival, no music, and ...

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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 ...

In Strasbourg in 1518, a dance craze began that, far from being a mere fashion, was a form of hysteria in which people literally danced themselves to death. The plague began on July 14, 1518, when ...

This isn’t about that night you dropped too much MDMA at the club. And no, it’s not a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track either (even if “dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead” would’ve been a fitting soundtrack).

A dancing plague from the medieval period is the focal point for a conversation surrounding the importance of caring for our environment in Syracuse. “Hysteria,” the latest video installation by Light ...

Fresh from performances in Los Angeles, California at the Daredevil Festival, and a sold-out reading at the Lyric Hyperion Theater last August, 1518: The Dancing Plague is a satirical comedy based on ...