So they had interns in 1518 “In the hopes of wearing the dancers out, the Strasbourg city council decided to build a stage and hire musicians. Their theory was

So they had interns in 1518 “In the hopes of wearing the dancers out, the Strasbourg city council decided to build a stage and hire musicians. Their theory was that the dancers had fevers, “hot blood” that could only be cured by dancing it out. This was obviously a terrible idea: The performance merely encouraged more citizens to join the crazed dancers.”