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 ...

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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 ...

On this day — July 14 — in 1518, a woman called Frau Trauffea stepped outside her home in Strausberg, Germany, and began dancing in the street. She did not dance joyfully, but with a kind of manic ...

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, ...

They’re back! Men dressed in white, leaping and dancing with bells tied around their legs, handkerchiefs and ribbons fluttering. No it’s not a revival of “La Cage aux Folles” — although that might be ...

Ros Tarrant opened the December meeting, welcoming Passamezzo, a dance group from Leominster and the surrounding area. Dancing Medieval dances, each lady dancer beautifully dressed in dresses ...