tarantism
the uncontrollable urge to dance to relieve one’s melancholy.
i think i’ve got a bad case of tarantism, i just can’t seem to stop myself from getting down and funky.
it’s really a word, look it up in the real dictionary.
(tar-uhn-tiz-uhm)- an uncontrollable urge to dance – after taranto, a town in southern italy where this phenomenon was experienced during the 15-17th centuries. it’s not clear whether tarantism was the symptom of a spider’s bite or its cure, or it may have been just a pretext to dodge a
prohibition against dancing. the names of the dance tarantella and the spider tarantula are both derived from the same place.
“the director is in a wild delirium, spinning in circles as though stricken with tarantism, his whirring camera held at arm’s length, panning, tilting, arcing and oscillating and making other moves that have no name.”
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