Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.

2025年1月17日 · Dancing plague of 1518, event in which hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg (then a free city within the Holy Roman Empire, now in France) danced uncontrollably and apparently unwillingly for days on end. The mania lasted for about …

The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks.

2009年2月21日 · In an age dominated by genetic explanations, the dancing plagues remind us that the symptoms of mental illnesses are not fixed and unchanging, but can be modified by changing cultural milieus. At the same time, the phenomenon of the dancing mania, in all its rich perversity, reveals the extremes to which fear and supernaturalism can lead us.

2016年6月24日 · In 1374, the region near the Rhine was suffering from the aftermath of another, true plague: the Black Death. Waller argues that the dancers were under extreme psychological distress and were...

Dancing mania. Sunny Celeste/ Alamy Stock Photo. Copy; Share to email; Twitter; Share to Facebook; The phrase “dance the night away” took on a more literal meaning back in 1518, when as many as 400 people were struck by a “dancing plague” in the city of Strasbourg in modern France. The epidemic began in July with a single woman known as ...

2022年12月5日 · Originating in Aachen, Germany, in 1374, the world’s worst outbreak of dancing mania quickly spread to towns in Belgium and the Netherlands along the Rhine River. Afflicted villagers took to the streets by the hundreds, dancing to music nobody else could hear.

2023年2月18日 · Some historians refer to these outbreaks as the ‘forgotten plague’ and it has been diagnosed as an almost inexplicable disease by scientists. It appears to have been contagious, and could last for as long as several months – in which time it could easily prove fatal.

2024年5月27日 · To understand the context of the dancing mania, we must first look at the devastating impact of the Black Death on medieval European society. The plague, which peaked in Europe between 1347 and 1351, wiped out an estimated 30-60% of the population, leaving behind a traumatized and destabilized world.

2022年3月22日 · Although Dance Mania was most likely a psychological reaction to the Black Plague, it was often seen as a form of madness, a curse from God, or a sinner indulging in the sinful. But what did dance mania, also known as choreo mania, actually look like?