Chapter 1, Section 1 of The Dancing Mania is an evening-length dance theater piece based on the bizarre true story of a medieval dancing plague. In 1518, the residents of Strasbourg were stricken with an unexplainable, irresistible, extremely painful urge to dance madly until they collapsed. Hundreds were affected; dozens died; two months and many rival curative attempts later, it was suddenly over. It was after the invention of the printing press, in the midst of the Protestant Reformation, in the aftermath of plague, famine, and natural disasters, when great societal trauma was about to erupt into a new social order - a time not unlike our own. Chapter 1, Section 1 of The Dancing Mania takes a close look at the moment when blood starts to boil.An all-female-identifying creative/design team, cast, and crew weaves together their experience in dance, theater, design, crafts, comedy, and new age healing to explore this story through a contemporary lens.
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Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (9/30 - 12/30) | |
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Bette Davis Ain't For Sissies
Triad Theater (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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Dance, Edita, Dance!
The Factory Series @ The Chain Theatre (12/12 - 12/14) OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
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A Marble Christmas Concert: Everlasting Joy, Narrated by Simon Jones
Marble Collegiate Church (12/14 - 12/14) | |
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A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play
Hampton Theatre Company (12/12 - 12/14) | |
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Down Once More
Teatro Latea (12/15 - 12/21) | |
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In the Same World
The Tank (12/11 - 12/11) | |
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Shadow of Intent at Irving Plaza
Irving Plaza (5/15 - 5/15) | |
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A Drinking Game NYC presents: Die Hard
The Bell House (12/12 - 12/12) | |
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Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection
The Museum of Modern Art (10/31 - 2/16) | |
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Mixed Emotions by Richard Baer
South Shore Theatre (1/11 - 1/11) | |
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