The Violent History of Dance
4 min readAug 27, 2018
Q: Why don’t men and women don’t dance together anymore? Why does everyone in the club dance solo?
A: Because men no longer wear swords.
Bear with me here.
From at least the Middle Ages up to the mid-19th Century, men of a certain rank were expected to carry and know how to handle a sword. To do so, they had to remain in constant practice. There were schools, of…