In Strasbourg, what started as one person's seemingly uncontrollable actions became a citywide phenomenon that danced its way ...

It's not just the name of an apocalyptic Florence + The Machine song. There was a real phenomenon in a medieval French town in which hundreds of people spontaneously broke out dancing in an affliction ...

For years, the Mütter Museum invited visitors through its doors for a Halloween party that emphasized blood and guts. That event, Mischief at the Mütter, was scrapped amid the institute's two-year ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1518, hundreds of citizens in the city of Strasbourg were suddenly overcome by a strange plague that made them dance uncontrollably. They danced, unwillingly, for hours on end; for ...