Strasbourg 1518: reliving a 16th-century ‘dancing plague’ in lockdown – The Guardian

In the summer of 1518, in the French city of Strasbourg, a woman walked into the street and began to dance unstoppably, for days on end. Within a week, dozens more had been overcome by the same compulsion. Within a month, some of the hundreds who found themselves imprisoned by this irresistible urge to dance had danced themselves to death.
In 2020, another lone dancer begins to move, standing in the corner of a darkened room. Others join her, each in their own confined space in different countr…

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