The event began with one person, as you'll learn in the almost jaunty animated BBC video below, a woman known as Frau Troffea. One day she began dancing in the street. People came out of their houses and gawked, laughed, and clapped. Then she didn't stop. She "continued to dance, without resting, morning, afternoon, and night for six whole days." Then her neighbors joined in. Within a month, 400 people were "dancing relentlessly without music or song."
