Dance was a central part of social life in the Middle Ages, appearing at festivals, celebrations and public gatherings. Communities often came together to perform group dances that reflected local ...

For years, the Mütter Museum invited visitors through its doors for a Halloween party that emphasized blood and guts. That event, Mischief at the Mütter, was scrapped amid the institute's two-year ...

When does movement spill over from something we recognize as dance as an artistic and social form to something else? Something potentially otherworldly, whether ecstatic or demonic? This workshop ...

Dance in the Middle Ages was more than entertainment—it was social bonding, religious expression, and sometimes mass hysteria. From simple circle dances sung by peasants to frenzied outbreaks where ...

James Pierpont Morgan, if not rolling in his grave right now, may be shifting uncomfortably: many books from his very own collection of medieval manuscripts are on display at his very own library, ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s strangest outbreaks. Around 400 people danced for days without rest in ...

This workshop is open to attendees of the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies who sign up during registration. How can we study medieval dance when the object of our study no longer exists ...

Adrift: A Medieval Wayward Folly is performed in a starkly empty black box theater at 59E59. A spare set piece, a ship’s mast, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Ship of Fools, is perched in one corner.