The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month.

RESONANCE Reading Group

Session #2: Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, by André Lepecki

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, NOVA FCSH).

You can register by emailing Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive an online meeting link and a PDF copy of the chapter.

More information about the RESONANCE project here.

Picture: Tomato, sagittal view, MRI. Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom (CC BY)

The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).