RESONANCE Reading Group

#2 Exhausting Dance – Chapter 5, by André Lepecki

February 9, 2026 | 1:30 PM

Online

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).

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.