Can't Stop The Beat: The Dancing Plague of Strasbourg, 1518
Can't Stop The Beat: The Dancing Plague of Strasbourg, 1518
Traditional Crisis Committee
About the Committee
July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, France. A woman takes to the streets, consumed by an uncontrollable desire to dance. Unyielding to the pleas from those around her, she dances with no end in sight. Day by day dozens are joining the frenzy. The heat is unrelenting; many collapse from hunger and thirst as their bodies give out. Possessed by the feverous and frantic bouts of dancing, the city begins to succumb to the mania.
Family and friends of the afflicted are desperate for answers. Death is imminent for many. The clock is ticking and the craze is only escalating. As clergy, physicians, scholars, authorities, delegates are tasked with finding a cure and managing the fallout before it's too late. Superstition, spirituality, and science clash.
Will you cure the madness, or be consumed by it?
Crisis Director
Katie Terry
Katherine Terry is a second year at the University of Miami from Southampton, NY, majoring in Human Resource Management and Film. Katie joined Model UN her freshman year of college and is so grateful to be apart of an organization so welcoming!
Outside of MUN Katie can be spotted at the gym, listening to music, mostly classic rock, or crossing a movie off of her very long letterboxd watchlist. Katie also loves to read and her current favorite authors are Fredrik Backman and Taylor Jenkins Reid.
Katie is looking forward to being your crisis director for this committee and seeing delegates creative solutions to solve the mystery of the plague before it envelops their whole city! If you have any questions, concerns or comments feel free to reach out at knt62@miami.edu