choreomania

Dickason's work on choreomania, a dance mania that spread across Europe between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, uses performance to open up new perspectives on a practice that critics have predominantly framed through a history of medicine lens.

In the Renaissance, disabilities such as Saint Vitus' dance (choreomania) were portrayed in art.

Willibrord became the patron saint of patients with neurologic diseases: paresis, epilepsy, and what was then known as choreomania or the "dancing disease," an epidemic of strange behavior of crowds.