Tag: Dance

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24th June 1374: Dancing Plague breaks out in the German city of Aachen and continues for many weeks

24th June 2022
Tagged as: Aachen, Cult, Dance, Dancing, Dancing Plague, Germany, Medieval, Religion

Known variously as St John’s Dance, St Vitus’ Dance, or the ‘dancing plague’, the occurrence in Aachen was neither the first nor the last outbreak but is one of the best documented.

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18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker first performed

18th December 2020
Tagged as: America, Ballet, Composer, Culture, Dance, Music, Russia, USA

On the 18^th December 1892, Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker received its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.