Dance Epidemics and The Last Days of Disco

These appeared in my newsfeeds on the same day. St John’s Dancers in Molenbeeck, by a follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder 500 years ago this month, a strange mania seized the city of Strasbourg. Citizens by the hundreds became compelled to dance, seemingly for no reason — jigging trance-like for days, until unconsciousness or, […]