Dancing plague of 1518
16TH CENTURY MASS DANCING MANIA IN STRASBOURG
Dancing Epidemic of 1518; Dancing epidemic of 1518; Dance Epidemic of 1518; Frau Troffea; Dancing Plague of 1518
The Dancing Plague of 1518, or Dance Epidemic of 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.