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Second edition of The Dance Reading Club series When The Dancers Know The Answers took place on 17th of June again in Living room of Studio ALTA in Invalidovna but this time in more Decameron like chiaroscuro mood. Under the name Good Night Readers ladies from platform Bjornsonova hosted two hours long life and online reading of excerpts of texts by feminist authors as Alice Munro, Linda Stupart, Octavia Butler, Ariana Reines, Justin Frank or singer Eartheater, meandering from detective, sci-fi narratives to erotics and poetry. Good night readers started as an initiation by platform Bjornsonova during quarantine as a sequel of Boccacio’s Decameron folowing the plague pandemic in 14th century into nowdays viral times.

The first edition of the Dance Reading Club series When The Dancers Know The Answers took place in the living room of Studio ALTA on Thursday 21st of May 2020 and it hosted two hours long discussion which started with the question When the dance fails as a gesture? Observing how the piece Assemblage by Martina Hajdyla Lacová found its audience in the park due to the pandemic restrictions, sandwiched later with the video excerpts of performances mentioned in the discussed text Writing Laughter / Violent Desire by Jenn Joy brought the discussion back to the core of what is the artistic gesture and why it requires gaps, stumbling and failures. 

Extraordinary project Gallery without borders hosted a research of eleven dance makers from Czech republic and USA who were together with american choreographer Sue Schroeder exploring the role of the the artistic artefact and its kinesthetic potential in the Gallery - white cube space. Various mouvement  researches were applied and reflected the display and curatorial ideas of current exhibition  Art of Long Century: 1796–1918 in National Gallery Prague.  The outcome of this long term quarantine research was presented life in the National Gallery Prague and streamed on 14th of July 2020. Here you can folow more on why these eleven mouvement artists decided to attend this particular project.