BETA
Chapter 1
The first steps in Strasbourg
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Chapter 2
The city's bizarre cure
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Chapter 3
Searching for a cause
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Chapter 4
A history of dancing manias
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YOUR GOAL
Master of The dancing plague of 1518
Ch 4 · A history of dancing manias
misslily Tap the dancers to the beat to learn how Strasbourg's bizarre dancing plague spread.
misslily The Dancing Plague of 1518
We’re spinning in the streets and we can't find the break, Just dancing through the night until the cobbles shake.
misslily In 1962, a modern mass psychogenic event involving laughter spread through schools in Africa.
misslily A similar compulsive dancing epidemic struck the island nation of Madagascar in the nineteenth century.
Fun Fact
Laughter epidemic: In 1962, a mass psychogenic outbreak of uncontrollable laughter affected over a thousand people in Tanzania.
Glossary
choreomania (noun)
An epidemic of uncontrollable, frenzied dancing, historically attributed to mass hysteria or physical ailment. In 1374, a major outbreak of this phenomenon occurred in Aachen, spreading rapidly along the Rhine.
An epidemic of uncontrollable, frenzied dancing, historically attributed to mass hysteria or physical ailment. In 1374, a major outbreak of this phenomenon occurred in Aachen, spreading rapidly along the Rhine.
Quiz
What major historical disaster occurred just decades before the 1374 Aachen dancing plague?
Quiz
What did the dancers in the 1863 Madagascar outbreak use their dancing to protest against?