It was perhaps inevitable that the dancing plague regained popularity now. The last two years have yielded feverish interest in the many pandemics that have gone before us, from the Black Death to the Spanish Flu. We have looked to them not only for comparison, but also, seemingly, to reassure ourselves that all epidemics eventually end. Within that, something tenuously classed as a plague where the contagion isn't sickness, but movement was always going to be alluring. As Welch acknowledges, one of the things lost during lockdown was the communality of dancing: that exquisite feeling of being physically proximate to hundreds of other people, everyone carried by music that commands the muscles and turns a sea of strangers into fellow travellers bound by shared experience.
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