The second meeting of the RESONANCE Reading Group happens on February 9, 2026, at 1:30 p.m., this time online and focusing on Chapter 5 of the of the book Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, by André Lepecki. This reading group meets typically once a month, at lunch time, in a bring-your-own-lunch mode, bringing together researchers, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history, to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book.

It is part of project RESONANCE – Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979), hosted by both the Institute of Art History (IHA) and the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), two of the seven research centres that make up the IN2PAST consortium. The project, predictably running until 2027, is coordinated by Hélia Marçal (IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) and the team also includes Afonso Dias Ramos (IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Ana Bigotte Vieira (IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) and Filipa Magalhães (CESEM – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST).

To take part, please register by emailing Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt. You will receive the online meeting link and a PDF copy of the chapter. 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 session of the reading group is going to be led by Sílvia Pinto Coelho (ICNOVA – NOVA FCSH).

The first meeting of the RESONANCE Reading Group happened on December 15, 2025, at the NOVA FCSH premises in Av. de Berna, Lisbon, around Marcello Tarì’s There is no Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution.