Dancing to Death — The Dancing Plague of 1518
Imagine that you are a citizen of Strasbourg in 1518. Who do you think you would be? What do you imagine yourself doing? Well, I cannot answer the first question, but the second… I am sure you would be dancing. But not like a radiant person, hair blowing in the wind, listening to “Would That I” by Hozier while running through bright grass on a beautiful summer day.