The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979). This group meets in person at NOVA FCSH or online, during lunchtime on a weekday. Each participant brings their own lunch, and for in-person sessions, coffee and biscuits are kindly provided by the project.

The second session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on Chapter 5 of the book Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, by André Lepecki. The chapter – Stumbling Dance: William Pope.L’s Crawls – continues Lepecki’s exploration of modernity’s temporality, rhythm, and kinetics. This is a fundamental reading on the politics of space and the public sphere through and with performance and dance. This reading group is going to be led by Sílvia Pinto Coelho (ICNOVA).