The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. As difficult to interpret now (as a psychological reaction to social injustice?) as it was then (as a collective demonic possession?), the story of the ‚Dancing Plague‘ finds suitably extraordinary expression in the utterly unique mixed-media style Gareth Brookes has devised to tell it.
ISBN: 978-1-910593-98-1
