TikTok dancing through our bad year
It was a warm July day when Frau Troffea began to dance. She walked out of her home, into the narrow streets of Strasbourg, and began her frenzied steps. She danced uninterrupted for nearly a week, her feet swollen and bleeding. By the time she had tired of dancing, 34 of her neighbors had joined her; by the end of August, 400 of Strasbourg’s residents were dancing wildly through the streets.
Worried for the crop and capital, the city’s noblemen and burghers brought in physicians to diagnose the dancers. They determined that the dancers suffered from “hot blood,” the cure for which was simply to keep dancing. The noblemen of Strasbourg emptied the guild halls and hired musicians to accompany the dancers and lure them from the city’s narrow streets. The dance continued up a nearby mountain and at a shrine that contained the holy images of the Virgin Mary and Saint Vitus.
The dance, he argued, was natural, like an earthquake—movement that needed to be expressed and could not be stopped, not some kind of divine punishment. It was only much later, after Saint Vitus became associated with the tics of the female hysteric, that Frau Troffea was labeled as patient zero in an outbreak of dance mania, an episode of mass hysteria.
” the melancholy of the “bad year” that moved them was unshakable. Now it’s believed such actions are the result of a kind of radical empathy—a resistance of deadening affect in the face of such feeling.Frau Troffea haunts me now.
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