Dance Reading Club 2: When We Read Together at Night

The second edition of the Dance Reading Club series When the Dancers Know the Answers took place on 17 June, once again in the Living Room of Studio ALTA in Invalidovna – but this time in a more Decameron-like, chiaroscuro mood. Under the title Good Night Readers, the ladies from the platform Bjornsonova hosted a two-hour-long live and online reading of excerpts from texts by feminist authors such as Alice Munro, Linda Stupart, Octavia Butler, Ariana Reines, Justin Frank, or singer Eartheater. The evening meandered from detective and sci-fi narratives to erotica and poetry.

Good Night Readers started as an initiative by the Bjornsonova platform during quarantine, as a sequel to Boccaccio’s Decameron – following the plague pandemic in the 14th century into today’s viral times.

Here is the list of literature from Good Night Readers 9: Decameron

• Eartheater: Spill the Milk
• Ann Cvetkovich: My Life as a Lesbian Go-Go Dancer
• Kathy Acker: Persian Poems / Blood and Guts in High School
• Justin Frank: Sweet Sweat / Dream and Reality Fucking!
• Ariana Reines: Mercury / When She Talks to the Sun
• Paul B. Preciado: Countersexual Manifesto / Countersexual Reading Exercises
• Octavia Butler: Fledgling
• Linda Stupart: The Virus / Lepht Anonym
• Alice Munro: Free Radicals

Here is the link to the Good Night Readers bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15raPDCcf7lTUFQkFonAwceyVOHXK-U1hfD-HHEm_mx4/edit#gid=0

Here is the link to the Good Night Readers books and texts:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AkHX3ZYgoqDQ2F7TupsIFKcJMz9mbq0t?usp=sharing