I think it’s safe to assume that all of our listeners at some point have experienced the social contagion that is so memorable, you may even get a physical reaction to the thought of it - the cringy awkwardness of one of the facets of the early pre-teen and teenage years - the middle school dance.  The music is blasting, the lights are flashing, to a completely void, lonely, and awkward dance floor.  Who makes the first move?  Who asks someone to dance?  Who breaks the ice and just goes for it in the middle of the dance floor?  This is a tug of war that middle schoolers experience the first half hour of every middle school dance to ever exist, anywhere in the world.  Ok, that may be hyperbole, but you know what isn’t exaggerated?  The contagiousness of dance, and on this episode of the Missing Chapter, we look at one of the most bizarre occurrences in all of history - dancing that breaks out into such a continued frenzy, that people actually died into plague-like proportions.  Oh, this is going to be a wild one, get yourself a cup of coffee and let’s get to it.

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